…At home all day and really very little to do. Delivered to John Gosling the younger:
| 6 bags of my own rags, weighing | 5.1.17 |
| l bag of my brother’s weighing | 5.3.22 |
| 11.1.11 |
which he is to sell for me at Maidstone Fair. Ah, melancholy time–no loving virtuous wife for an agreeable companion to soothe the anxiety of my tumultuous breast… [31 words omitted].