March 20th Wednesday.
Gelat came and talked for two hours: stories about how he's managed
to sell the rest of the Molí property, on behalf of the proprietario1, for the sum he reckoned. Now all is sold but one
piece which he is buying himself for Pts 6000, knowing well that he can sell it
at a profit to Juan de Margarita2 who bought the Molí and wouldn't buy this at the time: the land encircles the Molí and Juan will have to buy it eventually.
Took Salamo3 for a walk, starting with Gelat who has put some men on the
Canellun road to surface it, and then going to the stepping stones 4. I had to
carry S.
[Salamo] over them because he was afraid, but then he crossed himself. I picked
wild-asparagus there for our lunch. Isabel's mother & Josepha came to call.
Wrote out my Focus contribution. Bought a sheepshead for Salamo. First kippers
for supper for three years.
Weather suddenly very warm. Wrote to Miss Middleditch to ask what A.B.
[Arthur Barker]Ltd are doing about recovering the money due from
Germany: & to Wise for a copy of DeServiez.
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Editorial Notes
1owner KG
3RG's bull-dog. eds
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The Roman empresses: or, the history of the
lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve Caesars; Written
originally in French. By Monsieur de Serviez. And translated by the Hon. Bysse
Molesworth. Author: Serviez, Jaques Roergas de, 1755-1804.; Molesworth,
Bysse. Publication: Dublin : Printed by George Faulkner,1752 eds.