| Description | 'I wrote my dearest life some posts ago which I hope you have received. I hope also that you will be setting out for Hill Street about the time this comes to your hands. I think you should. I shall write no more to you addressed in Scotland I shall send them to Mary Fencer. I had a letter from Captain Mastertone from London, he writes me that you had desired him to take a bed in our house in Hill Street, I don't much approve of this I am always ready to oblige my friends but I am not fond of taking any of them into my house and to tell you the truth Masterton is one of the last, neither he nor his servants are proper guestsfor a clean house, I would have you write upon receit of this to Mary Fencer that you are coming to town whcih will make him look out for a lodging.
I think you should discharge all work people till the spring and leave instructions with Andrew Longmoir concerning every thing. Send for my brother and consult with him about the kitchen I wrote you. It will be impossible to do when I come home without having one. The best place you can place it is opposite the brew house and a covered way may be made to the passage. I wish you and he could contrive something handsome and send the plan to me. I would have a kitchen, pantry and scullery and over where the scullery and pantry is room for servants, for our own servants can not go to the stables, it is too far off. I think the stones and materials of the old offices may build this, but I would give a couple of hundred pound to have it done properly. You would perhaps like to have a dairy also, which think off.
Farewell my dearest Peggie. Your LD' |