| Description | Another welcome letter on Tuesday and very glad he continued well. Good of him to write so late at night when longing for rest - very strange of Charles not to send him particulars of how he found things on reaching home - is certainly too easy but nothing further from his mind than to grieve him in any way. Always a fault in Charles' writing that not explicit enough. Lizzie still here. Daily chronicle and local news.
Gave William message about lambs - he considers he has had good luck having only lost two which were born dead - now 28 - good average 1 1/3 per ewe. Went to Chapel Fair on Tuesday and bought 10 cows for £90.10s but could not get any at Chesterfield. Does not know how to get enough beasts for not to be found and few he can see are too dear. ½ dozen farms near haven't been able to buy. Randal walling gaps, mixing bones (a most offensive operation), taking care of William's charge, 2 days sowing mangel and rolling. Matthew harrowing, mixing bones, loading manure, rolling and at Chesterfield one day with William.
(Received 19 Aug) by Africa to New York. |