Thank you Nivard.   I shall check it out.   Madeline --- On Wed, 2/1/12, Nivard Ovington <[email protected]> wrote: From: Nivard Ovington <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LEI] Victorian letter To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 11:55 AM Hi Madeline If you are enjoying the Victorian Farm, you may remember they refer to a book quite often, Henry Stephens, The Book of the Farm You may be interested to know you can get your own copy from www.archive.org Select texts and search for henry stephens the book of the farm You should find three volumes plus others on buildings etc Select one and on the next page you will see an HTTP on the left, select that and then the line ending pdf You can also read them online of course If you have farming ancestors, and most of us do at one level or another, I think you will find it interesting to read something they did Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) PS There are plenty of other books on Archive.org that you may find interesting Thank you, Brian, for the most interesting post. I am currently enjoying tapes of Victorian Farm, Victorian Christmas and Victorian Pharmacy, all from BBC TV. Such a hard and difficult life many of our ancestors had. I have several Leic. connections and hope to visit in the summer. Connect the dots as it were. Madeline in California ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message