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Friday 30th August 1833
Wrote to Mr Mitchell the Lessee of Highgreen Colliery, now transferred to the Duke of Northumberland calling his attention to a balance of Rent Arrears still due by him to the Hospital and also an account for railway plates got from Stublick & requesting an early settlement.
Dilston Park Stable
Wrote also to several tenants reminding them of arrears left over at the late receipt , which they have since taken no notice of. Rode out by the men engaged on the Tyne banks & proceeded to Dilston Park Farm to examine the timber upon the Stable from which the bad grey slabs have been removed and ascertain whether it would suffice to carry the new roof or not. The principal timber will do, but the laths are entirely gone and the spars so rotten as not to be likely to stand for any length of time which won’t make it advisable to lay new Slates upon them. As this is the case I think it will be right to raise the walls of the Stable, which is too low, about two feet, so as to make it equal with the rest of the square, that the roofs may range together without any projecting gable.
The weather is boisterous, which causes the harvest to proceed rapidly; the Corn on the low Grounds will be all cut in a few days, hardly getting leave to stand ‘till it is ripe, for apprehension of loss by the wind.
