| Description | letters received and some draft letters and memoranda: subjects include the trusteeship of the estates of his father in law Thomas Seager Gundry decd, Marlborough, and mrs Emma Rowdon, Green Park Buildings, Bath, 1873; his work as officiating minister in local churches around and Bath. Correspondents include family members, rev Henry Duke, vicar of Westbury (mainly requests for Shum to visit parishioners in hospital in Bath and for him to attend school festival and take services in Westbury), 1874-1880 and H[erbert] W[heeler] Baron, son of John Baron, rector of Upton Scudamore, a rambling and incomplete letter about the difficulties of obtaining a squirrel as a pet, the various dealers in animals in Bath, his interest in photography ,and a not entirely successful visit to mr [Robert Raikes] Taylor, Westbury, pastry cook and photographer, 1879, 1880 |