| Description | Has received three pounds by the bearer, for which he will enclose a receipt. Is vey sorry that what pains he has taken with Cousin Robert should be so ineffective and so little to John Owen's satisfaction. Knows not what old things Robert had before which he has lost but the writer has used the most effectual means he could think of to improve him. Will observe what John Owen writes about putting cousin Robert to William Williams. As for Arithmetic, the writer drew them both the table for numeration and something else that belongs to the initiating of them in that art, and had often at the fire in winter put questions to them (among other things) relating to the multiplication of all digits. Will not fail to give his wife charge concerning their keeping clean.
Attached: Receipt for £3 for the diet of 'Cos. Robt. Owen and Will = Bold' for the quarter ended April 21st |