5th March
Dear Mr F.
I want to know whether you & Gwynne <1> think the following weekly bills of ours are reasonable. They are for eatables only, & do not include wine, but include servants board wages – viz. Franklin, Edward, Mrs Jones, Jane & the underhousemaid – <2>
| week first | – | 7 · | 11 · | 0 |
| second | – | 6 · | 4 · | 0 |
| third | – | 6 · | 12 · | |
| fourth | – | 5 · | 14 · | |
| 26 · | |
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| 6 · | 10 · | 0 |
I have cast up my Election bills and find they amount to £352 which includes every expense that can by possibility be supposed to have been caused by the election, as journeys, &c.
Yours affly
Henry
[on verso:] <3> Bath Coach from the Chicken Birmingham
earliest coach to the Hounds, by ½ past 5
Notes:
1. Mrs Gwynne (d. winter 1841/1842), lady’s maid, cook and housekeeper to Elisabeth Feilding.
2. Lacock Abbey servants. Mrs. C. Jones, a lady's made apparently from north-east Wales, accompanied the Talbots on a tour of France and Switzerland in 1833. Amélina Petit purchased a blank diary for her in Paris, and it is preserved in the National Library of Wales, MSS 23248A.
3. Continues in Charles Feilding’s hand.