Letter – Thomas Richard Beaumont to John Erasmus Blackett – 12 May 1797

									12 May – 97.

My dear Sir,

I have the Favor of Yours this Morning, and I understood that the Pays are fixed by You for the 17th -18th – 19th Inst. & that they were not to be put off, as you express in Your letter. I have not been able to see Mr. Burdon to day but will see him in the Morn[in]g respecting more Cash. In all Your former letters I imagined that orders were given to proceed in due form against Mr. Forster for in one You mention that Mr. Bell was to take proper steps that I don’t know what Answer is to be given to what you are asking – I feel most exceedingly for poor Kit Blackett, and will write to him. The News of to day is that Colpoys is in Town – I am happy to say Mrs. Beaumont and the Children are all very well. She unites with me in best Respects. I am my Dear Sir in haste

Most sincerely Yours

Tho. Rd. Beaumont.



[This letter encloses the following fragment of a letter from Mr Bell – Hexham Abbey Steward – to TRB together with a covering note in TRB’s hand.]

The Slater has now begun to cover the West Wing of the Abbey and the Northern Side Wall of the South Wing is now taken down and will be ready to begin to be rebuilt next Week – The Foundation must be sank between two and three Feet deeper than it has been before and the Southern Side Wall of this Wing will to <underset> not less than between Three and Four Feet – I wish you could see it because it seems to me there will be very little difference in the Expence of taking it down and rebuilding it and letting it stand building up the Old Windows and breaking new ones in different Places in such an old thick Wall and undersetting it – This is only my own Idea

Mrs. Beaumont and the Family I hope are all well and I am 

Sir Your Faithful and obedt. Servt.

JW Bell



[TRB’s covering note to Bell’s letter reads:]

I wish that you could make some enquiry of Mr. Newton about what Bell says, because I don’t understand Buildings -