Inscribed
addressed to John Soane Esqr / Great Scotland / Yard and verso (invoice) Act. of Day work at Piercefield 1793 / Description / Clerk / Name / Pullinger / Jany 7th / Atendance (sic) at / Piercefield / 1 day / 8th [to] 12th / 1 Day Do / Days / 6 / at per / Day 4/0 / £ s d / 1=4=0
Sir // the Roof will be on next week for Slaters to begin slating / Mr Smith wishes to have the Joiners work don[e] as well as can be / here is not a good hand to be got in this Countrey, I have got 1 / good one out of Glocester Shire a Man that workd under me at / Saml Robt (?) Gassen Esqr at Bell Barr Harts [Hertfordshire], I have Advised / Mr Smith to get 2 good (?) experienced Joiners from London / Men that can work, for now Person can tell what trouble I have / had with countrey Carpenters All the floors and Roof. / Mr Smith Informed me he will rite to you to Engage 2 (sealing wax over next word) / to send down as soon as Posable as he is in a hurry for West Parlour and a Chamber to be finish, & Mr Smith ask'd me if I know of any / 2 good men I canot say ware to find them but a Mr Taylor / Tool Maker in Swallow Street an Aquaintance of mine / is aquainted with the Best Joiners in London he wishd I / would rite to him If he knew of any he could Recommend / to you I have rite to Mr Taylor and gave him Directions / to send them to Your Office If he knows of any that will do // Sir I am Your Faithfull Servant // John Pullinger
Signed and dated
- 14 January 1793
Jany 14th / 1793
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil on secretary paper folded five times for dispatch and with red sealing wax (390 x 225)
Hand
John Pullinger, Soane
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
John Pullinger, Soane
Level
Drawing
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