Reference
HW87/46
Title
Letter: Joseph Barber (Ampthill) to Richard How (at the 3 Crowns & Key in Gracious St.)
Date free text
30 Jan. 1723/4
Production date
From: 1723 To: 1724
Scope and Content
[How addressed as brother (i.e. brother in law) rather than cousin]
Wife has been ill over disappointment at not receiving lamb promised by How. Please send some by White directed to Mr. J. Findlay in Ampthill. Please to send also 2 or 3 civil oranges & lemons, & as I fear my reading to her a pretty deal of Adisons & Burnets discriptions of the Italian Mountains being covered with oranges, lemons & olives has a little influenced her inclinations for the latter. I intreat thee also to send a few of them in a small pot. I was within sight of thee when thee left Woburn but could not reach thee, my hackney horse being tired. Bella is bravely & I believe very easie.
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