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To Mr Thos.Street Confectioner in Old Bond Street London Newcastle 17th Sept 1756 Sir I am ordered by Sir Walter & Lady Blackett to write to you to send down the above articles to be here the 7th or 8th of next month or they will be too late; you must not therefore fail to send them by Carrier or waggon that will leave London the 26th or 27th of this month, for as Sir Walter is to be Mayor they will be wanted at the Guild the 11th of next month, so pray take care you do not slip the first setting out of the Newcastle Carrier, for if you do, the sweet meats will come too late to be of any Service. I desire you will advise me as soon as they are delivered to the carrier, & direct for me at Sir Walter Blacketts in Newcastle upon Tyne. I am etc JR 12 Oranges & <Qua.rs> 40 lb of wet sweet meats in sorts 1 lb fine Ginger 3 lb pippin Paste 4 lb rock candt 6 lb clear Cakes 3 lb Apricots 4 lb Currants & Barberries 2 lb Lemmon Cakes & Angelica 3 lb Plumbs French 2 lb Hips 6 lb Orange & Lemon chips 2 lb Spunge Biscuit 16 lb Pistachea nutts 16 lb burnt Almonds 8 lb best Plumbs 4 lb Nonparreil Sugar, or Gravel 2 lb green wax 8 lb Shells & faces Limes & grass wee do not want, but if there are any other Sorts, wch I have omitted you think proper to send, you may send a small parcell of them
