Letter – Isaac Hunter to Robert Morrow – 29 Sep 1777

      Dukesf’d. 29th  Sept 1777

Mr Morrow Blaydon



Dr Sir,

      I have below given you the quantity of each sort of Lead delivered this year from this mill for Blaydon, and as you will get now no more from Her for Sir John Trevelyan but of the refined lead and as it differs in the size with Comon Lead (which will be the only kind that will be sent this Season of Sir Thos. Blackett’s) I desire you’ll give me a line once you have got all the short Lead of the Roads that we may send what we have smelted for Sir Thos. there’s only the Figure of an Eight to distinguish it from Sir John’s, so that His (ie Sir John’s) should be all in before we deliver of Sir Thos’s.

      The accot. you sent me with your last does not still convince me, but that we weigh lead at D.f.d Mill as accurate as you do it Blaydon: if you had given me the accot. of the deficiency (if any) of the whole quantity rec.d of the lead would then have believed that we were short. 

      I am Yrs &c   IH:Jr



Lead Deliv’d from Dkfd Mill to 29th Sept 1777 viz



WB, L, X, CL & S Lead  14837

Refined or Long Lead    9906

8 stone ps L Lead       2142

                       26885