Content Description | Has sent 22 lb of butter and some things from the garden to Dover Street; on Wednesday Samuel Jackson will come with veal, mutton, butter and more garden things; explains that sending a servant directly rather than using a waggon means that the food can be served up at dinner the next day, but adds that it is more expensive.
Intends to send 60 'fat Sheep' to market in London because of the high price of mutton, and states that there are more waiting to be fattened and killed; mentions Mr Kimpton's grave illness and writes that he has requested some wood 'for a Hog Trough'. |