X928/1/3/3/9

Book of expenses. Index at front. Includes prospective servant's references, letters from the coal merchant and Coal Exchange, personal purchases, travel, comings and goings of family and friends.

1937-1938

From: 1937 To: 1938

Book of expenses, keeping a running total. Index at front. Includes prospective servant's references, letters from the coal merchant and Coal Exchange, personal purchases, travel, brief notes of comings and goings of family and friends, including holidays. Servant's names and wages are recorded. Lists of food suppliers with amounts spent, including regular payments to Gina. Records of Eggs pickled, potatoes and apples stored from year to year, apricot harvest making 20lbs jam. Cow calved and produced first milk. 21st October 'My eyes began to be bad. I went to see Armstrong on 29th October'. Later 'conjunctivitis' Begins to make butter and record amounts P109 Christmas present list P137 & 115 laundry lists P121 Wages list with names and insurance stamps. More on pages 129, 188-199 P140 list of furniture repairs with costs P143 List of glass, china and hardware with prices P136 a list of plate and ironmongery with prices P155 List of coal, coke and anthracite bought with prices and where used. Two copies of a references from an agency 'Mrs Mary Hunt Ltd, London' for E. L. Phillips, seeking temporary employment. On one is Henrietta's note that he came 22nd Dec until 14th Jan and was 'very good'. He had served as a butler and valet previously. Two letters from Caswell & Bowden, Coal and Coke Factors, Birmingham: 16th Feb, acknowledging a complaint from Henrietta about the quality of coal supplied 7th May, explaining the different types of fuel available, and their burning qualities, and enclosing a price list 6th May, from Coal Exchange acknowledging a complaqint from Henrietta and offering advice. P165 List of linen with prices P170 list of brushes, brooms and leathers with prices P175 redecoration costs P177 sundries e.g chimney sweep, chauffeur's summer coat and cap P185 Amusements, drugs, dentist with costs P200 -212 list of personal grooming and clothing with costs P213-220 travelling expenses P221-224 postage costs P227-229 stationary costs P235 expenses relating to the re-decoration of 'the cottage', with two bills from Frederic Gale of Mill St Bedford P239-241 list of subscriptions P243-251 List of expenses for Anne and John (grandchildren)

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Argenti, Henrietta,
Argenti, Virginia,
Argenti, Nicholas,
Argenti, Ambrose Nicholas,
Gale, Frederic

Picts Hill House, household accounts, coal, Monte Carlo, Sainsbury's, Macfisheries, Newmarket, horse racing, gambling, coronations, London, Royal Navy, livestock, cattle, health, servants, wages, Christmas, Gift, laundries, National Insurance, subscription, charity