[Briggs's Registry Office, 73 Moules Road, Lincoln] Letters from employers (not aristocrats!) and aspirants. A collection.

C. 50 items, mainly letters but three postcards also, of varying degrees of literacy, ands including a receipt for Mrs Briggs, Booking fee & Engagement fee for recommending General to Mrs Stead 3/-. Subjects: trouble with Cook; response to her advertisement wanting place as cook in Lincoln; requesting amount of fee having decided the girl would suit; urgent need for a maid; request for a good general servant; General; taking the housemaid referred; fee for housemaid but already has a parlourmaid; character; country girl; not been out before; under waitresses at Woodhall Spa; requires a good strong Cook General; no washing and wages £18; etc etc.