Happy Birthday Eglantine ! a page from Lady Exmouth's shopping list
Here with hoping your birthday has been a good day so far. By way of a birthday greeting I am posting one page of a three page document found among the papers we researched last week as photographed by anteros_lmc.
This is one of Susan's shopping lists - at least it is an account for = as you can see "Items that Lady Exmouth has desired to have"
Hope you can read it - it includes such items as :
12 dozen wax candles at 42 shillings £25.4.0
sundry jams and jellies £11.11.0
104 lbs Coffee £7
Sundry pickles £0.10
37 bottles green currants £0.12.0
28 bottles cherry and raspberry brandy £2.10.0
12 lbs cocoa
12lbs tamarinds
and so on = there are several more pages including her wine order - more of which another time .I hope your list today included something of a treat for self.
snail mail card went off today so will get to you a little late but for now greetings from here :)
This is one of Susan's shopping lists - at least it is an account for = as you can see "Items that Lady Exmouth has desired to have"
Hope you can read it - it includes such items as :
12 dozen wax candles at 42 shillings £25.4.0
sundry jams and jellies £11.11.0
104 lbs Coffee £7
Sundry pickles £0.10
37 bottles green currants £0.12.0
28 bottles cherry and raspberry brandy £2.10.0
12 lbs cocoa
12lbs tamarinds
and so on = there are several more pages including her wine order - more of which another time .I hope your list today included something of a treat for self.
snail mail card went off today so will get to you a little late but for now greetings from here :)