• Reference
    R3/19
  • Title
    Letter from Robert Howard of Shortgrove to Robert Butcher of Bedford House Reads- Am now living at the Earl of Thomonds at Shortgrove by Newport I bought a small farm here, nearly all arable, but have laid down two enclosures with grass this spring. Your idea of improving the meadow by drains and cleaning the brook cant be effectually done; the hills are too steep, the river too crooked etc. Will you write to me from Cambridgeshire?
  • Date free text
    22 Apr 1740
  • Production date
    From: 1740 To: 1740
  • Level of description
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