Lady Hester Stanhope to Dr. M.
Jôon, October 22, 1838.
Dear Doctor,
I hope soon to hear of your safe arrival at Marseilles, and take the first opportunity of repaying you the 2,000 piasters, for the loan of which I am very much obliged to you. I enclose a bill on Coutts for £50—twenty for you and thirty for commissions.
What I immediately want (and, supposing you are at Nice, if procured by your friend, Captain Pardoe, will be better, as he understands these things), is—
Some dried cherries and Burgundy apricots, simply dried like raisins, if such are to be had at Marseilles, eight or ten pounds of each;
Small covered pans for milk;
Three wire blinds for the milk-room, fine, that flies cannot enter, each three spans square, or about half an ell;
Some wire covers for the milk-pans;