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WAITING SIX YEARS FOR A WORKMAN. ;We have waited six hours for a plumber to stop a leak, but we do not remember : waiting six years, as they did In 1701. • In that year Peter le Neve wrote to Christopher Wren about the damage done to the records in Westminister Abbey Chapter House through failure to repair the leaky roof. Scaffolding was set up .six years ago,” he wrote, “but ever since no workmen come to repair!” This letter is one of many literary and historical docunjents just added to the museum of the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, London. Another is the account of the inquest held on Christopher Marlowe, who was killed in a brawl at Deptford.
There is also a letter from De Quincey apologising for his failure to reply to five letters from the War Office owing to illness. On it a War Office clerk has commented that “it is rather a curiosity, but is obviously written by a man of taste and talent.” •
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 11045, 20 February 1933, Page 3
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