| Description | Contains letters from:
N Gilchrist Clark: buying furniture from her sister; diptheria; giving notice to 5 women servants; kitchen maid claiming compensation for scalded foot; Alford protracted illness
John Austin: giving notice
R C, Mary and Dora Binney: Cantax House
A H Lapham, Chippenham Rural District Council: gravel
Matilda Talbot: her training at Crystal Palace; Elizabeth Jonse' death; acceptance into Women's Royal Naval Service; auction of items including a Gainsborough painting; German prisoners; her posting to RNAS Cranwell; outbreak of diptheria; Lady Shippard "a very trying person to deal with"; cobbler can use an old house in East Street; "The Christmas Bugbear" translation
Frances Awdry: new kitchen floor
Huntington & Leaf: sale of land to Dr Taylor; income tax, her change of name; death of Mrs Jones; lease of Cantax House; sale of the Red House
Christie, Manson & Woods: receipt for items for sale
Board of Trade: purchase of timber
Capital & Counties Bank
Gowen & Stevens: drains at Cantax House
Frederick Banks: repairs at J Stevens and Mr Beers stable; fumigation; Edward Brinkworth's leaking roof
Mabel Granville: moving in to her cottage; fleas in bedroom
W Spackman: repair need to fire bricks; distempering needed
Lily F Tanner: Cantax House fixtures
F Bence Pembroke: offers part The Red House for sublet, owner, Mr Burt, in India
Charles Wiltshire: request for money; Miss Awdry's house; George Tayler's fence
Rowland T Rhode, Chippenham Rural District Council: drains
Arch. W Doel: fencing to keep in animals
Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited:
Lucy Elmes: wall paper
John Horwood: wet weather prevented him gardening
Edmund Wilkins: settling her aunt's estate
WE H Blanchard: repairs to cottage
S H S Taylor: asks when Latham was given notice to quit field
Fred Croker: wood
Geoffrey Watkins: the Red House
Frank Banks: rent
J Ellsworthy: enquiring after a house to rent
E A Hunt: rent
G Stanley Taylor: rent
Mrs Cole: rent
W J Gale
E & F Austin: quote for typewriter
R Cook: testimony for Isaac Bury
T Blake: testimony for Mr & Mrs Stuart
G Terrell: Coleman
Stanley V Samuelson:Private E F Coleman
Grace Hay and W J & D Awdry: birth certificate of Belgian child, Albert Anthonissen
O R Osborne: enquiring after a house to rent
E Wheeler: repairs needed
Geo Button: carpet laying
Joseph Bentley Ltd: discrepancy in account
Hills Mary Kelly: help needed with Mr Talbot who is not well
Keary, Stokes & White: financial matters; matters following the death of Mr talbot, including having the Magna Carta valued
E C Goodwin: cattle on Bowden Common
Edward Brinkworth: leaking roof
Letter 126 9 lots sold at Christie's realised £1,797.12.0. which are "a good help in clearing death duties".
Letter 132 from Huntingdon Leaf about a Charge on the estate since the death of Charles Henry Talbot in 1916. |