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In future let all letters be sent by way of Riga
for I have now received yours of the 18th of March
and it is but 4/15 of April. This is less than a Month
yet the roads are almost unpassable. By the date of
a letter from Mr Hay of Riga which inclosed yours
I find that your letters came there in 15 days and from
thence here in 13.
If she is any way industrious let her come
out by all means: but I hope you have
not forgotten to provide me a cookmaid.
All clever females not too prudish nor
exigentes may be very usefull and find
themselves not uncomfortable in this country.
The window drinking glass you have drawn me is
as near as possible the shape which I have
before given the glasshouse to work by.
I am in great expectation but at a loss
to imagine what the immense weight of
2268 lb can consist of as I do not recollect
having ordered anything but specimens of instruments.
I have received the compleat set all
bound except the 10th Vol.
Dont forget to let me have my cane which
Mr Samboursky tells me he left at your chambers
though you were absent whiles he was in
England.
Poor Hynam has lost two of his
children which has made him very
melancholy and at least for the present
seems to have made him consider this
misfortune as a scourge of the Lord.
I hope not only this but other letters which
I may write to you a week or fortnight hence
may reach you before you set out although
your departure should take place in the first week
in June.
This writing by the way of Riga
seems far eligible to the tedious delays of
the Post and of my friends at Petersburgh.
Were it not for the dread of your suffering
from disappointments and dissatisfaction from
your correspondence with the Prince, I should be
mighty happy at the thoughts of our meeting.
I hope that if Swediar's Terras remains in repute
superiour to earth prepared in Henderson's manner
you will send me 10 or 20 pounds of it by which
I might prove the success of it against I may have
opportunity of introducing it.
If you have had already a model or drawing
of it well & good, if not, it is not worth your
while troubling yourself about, neither would
I give scarcely a guinea for any description of
it.
Ice you shall have ice enough: but as to
your ice decanters I have seen them the summer
before last at Petersburgh; and they were not thought
to answer the purpose near so well as the kind of
jars of ice in which the bottles are set upon table.
Price pr pood of some articles bought at Moscow
Brimstone 2 .. 50 ) Carriage from Moscow
Lead ——— ) 2 .. 10 ) to Critchoff on an average
White lead — — — 2 .. ) at 20 Copeks pr pood:
red lead — — — 2 .. 50 ) other expenses in obtaining
Nitre — — — 7 ) articles from thence about 3
Manganese — — 5 )
Salt 40 brought from the Crimea Ne
Notwithstanding some of the ingenious men mo
well acquainted with the construction of plough
different sorts and other implements of hur
Yet as they would other employments it might be
adviseable in case such a man should offer to
engage somebody whose business it had been as
there would be money to be made.
Let me have a set of Wind Instruments for Martial musick from Longman. Let there
be a pair of French horns. I think 10 instruments
enough.
6 Drums the best for sound
but not ornamented unless it be one for a
pattern in case the ornaments would be suited to this country.
my Upon recollection the English drums are too large for
the establishment of this country, therefore send only one
unless you can find and or can easily get made some of
the following description. Diameter 1 foot 5 inches
length 1 " 8. By way of ornament they are coated
with an entire piece of thin sheet brass: so that there
remains only the hoops at each end which are painted.
Should you happen to meet with a lad who has
been an expert drummer and whose moral
character or tallents would render him fit for
any thing else, it would be creditable to be
able by this means to improve my Batallion
drumming.
I don't know if I told you of my want of a man to
make the Stills and other large copper Vessels as these
are very indifferently made at present. Instead of
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