vestige, and the decipherment was not easy. It appears to run:—
“Dr Sr.
“I have bin expctin to her off you theis last wicks,and not Haveing done so must supose you have not got mine witch was saying how me and my man had met in with bad times this season all seems to go cross with us on the farm and which way to look for the rent we have no knowledge of it this been the sad case with us if you would have the great [liberality probably, but the exact spelling defies reproduction] to send fourty pounds otherwise steps will have to be took which I should not wish. Has you was the Means of me losing my place with Dr. Pulteney I think it is only just what I am asking and you know best what I could say if I was Put to it but I do not wish anything of that unpleasant Nature being one that always wish to have everything Pleasant about me.
“Your obedt Servt,
“Jane Lee.”
About the time at which I suppose this letter to have been written there is, in fact, a payment of £40 to JL.
We return to the diary :—
