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Wednesday 21st
The weather still severe, & little out of doors work to be done. Received from Mr Handcock his Balance of £136.12.3 for Wood. Wrote to my Son giving him the dimensions & description of the Wall to be rebuilt by the Sea Links at Scremerston, directing him to obtain estimates for it & to communicate them to me, & respecting other matters on the Northern Estates, especially to try to obtain from the present manager of Scremerston Colliery a payment in liquidation of Rents. Took a long walk through the Woods to the West of Dilston in which one generally finds something to remark & rectify.
I discovered that the Tenant of an adjoining Estate had not attended to a message I had sent him by Mr Hunt, calling upon him to clean out his boundary Ditch, the want of which had caused the Water to flow over the Hospitals Land for some time past, and which at the melting of the Snow will be worse than ever. I therefore wrote to warn him, that if it were not done forthwith, I should direct the Solicitor to institute a prosecution for damages immediately.
