| Description | Contains letters from:
The People's Refreshment House Association Limited: asking for a rent reduction due to heavy trading loss due to war restrictions; mamager Mr Dawson leaving
Miss M C Gilchrist-Clark [later Talbot]: letter from Bassang, Vosges where she is helping a cousin, with mention of Mme Caesons, Gaston, Max (a young Belgian expecting to be called up, Mrs W Fortune, Mrs Hunter at the Red House; tasks to keep Bird occupied, John Edwards; Belgian Fund, John Austin, Lillian Self; sprayer for potato disease; contribution to retirement of John Austin, postmaster, using franked envelopes from the military authority; reasoning for refusing Mrs Glanville's request for a certain house; her return home; gift of wood to tenants; Lord Lansdowne and work for the War Office; authority for Edward Fletcher to fish in the river; fields Great and Little Soho, maidservant stole Mrs Fortune's money; Gainsborough picture: opening times for the Abbey; increase William Fortune's wage; sale of farms; suggestions for replanting flowering shrubs, wood shed: price for the field to Dr Taylor; succession duty; photographing Gainsborough's portrait of Mrs Davenport, her change of name to Talbot; food rationing
Board of Trade: sale of timber, payment by 5% Exchequer Bonds; Capital & Counties Bank account; purchase of ash trees
Mrs M C Gilchrist-Clark: her daughter's return from France has been delayed; her daughter's rheumatism;
Huntington & Leaf: sale of fir plantation; super tax; interest to the Misses Gilchrist Clark under terms of Miss Rosamund Talbot's will; sale of field to Dr Taylor; holding of deeds
Keary, Stokes & White: requesting details of interest payable on certain charges
Mary E Gilchrist Clark: request to open a box arrived at the Abbey; replanting of trees; netting
The Four Oaks Machine Co: Knapsack Spraying Machines
Mrs F Bath: repair of steps
Frank Latham: burst pipe
Frances Awdry: problems which may arise following Mrs Priest's discharge from Devizes (Roundway County) Asylum
A Horwood: pump, lock and bell out of order
Frederick Banks: repairs for Mr Austin, Whitehall Farm, F Latham, Mr Beers of George Inn
W Spackman: rent
F H Potter: accident by his lad driving cattle
Henry Hill: looking for house to rent
S Baker: potatoes
Charles and John Butler: mother in house in East Street
L Elmes: asking for rolls of wallpaper and a new gate
Chippenham Rural District Council, Rowland T Rhodes: overcrowding in Wick Lane; state of bank at bottom of F Wheeler's garden
Alice Goldney: wounded soldiers in Corsham hospital eager to take tea in grounds of Abbey
Mabel Granville: prefers the cottage by the Bridge rather than Mrs Keene's
A Miles: would like to rent Frank Fenn's house
E A Hankey: renting cottages, Colonel Hankey's soldier servant, Lock; neighbours upset at return of Mrs Priest - Mrs Lock may give up tenancy - Mr Priest, in Warwickshire, expecting return to France on active service
Constance Stewart: questions the cheque she has received
Adamson & Blacklock: Income Tax rebate
Florrie Gough: rent and old clothes for her son; possible lodger Harry Flower; her position following her father's death
The Chippenham Union: notice to quit "The Lark's House"; Vicarial Tithe
A Keen: stable and cart shed
Adam Thring: on behalf of Capt and Mrs Burt enquiring if the Red House is on the market
E G Fuller: Lark's House
A G Smith: putting forward Mrs Keen's case for a sum for the shed erected by her husband for his trade, a smith
A Keen: hedgecutting by Harry Flower
Lady Shippard: repairs and heating
Katherine Estcourt: roof needs attention
William Forgan: Furze Heath and Nerhermore Plantations
E W Fletcher: fishing permit
The Lands Improvement Company: enclosing literature
A Chamberlain: front post needs repair
Tilley, Parry & Culverwell: Nethermore timber
J H Herbert, Lt and Adjt, P/W Camp, Yatesbury: Lacock too far from camp for POWs to work
Charles Wiltshire: Shed in Abbey yard; state of Frank Crew's house and Mr Guley's Wick Farm
Mme L Caesens: complaing Mr Collett taking his pony through the front gate; mentions maid Ada Colman
Cockett & Henderson: seeking a farm for a Scottish client; Lacock suitable for a stud farm
William Fortune: suggestions how to make the garden more profitable
Capital & Counties Bank
The Country Gentlemen's Assn (Scottish Branch): netting
J C Goodwin: farmer Doel and straying cows
A W Doel: straying cattle
G Halliday: requests different house
T Priest: his furniture in cottage in East Street, was wounded; being sent to Salonica
A Sadler: renting a house
Rev W G Clark Maxwell: timing of payments to Elizabeth Jones
Rev W H Ramsbottom: school subscription
E H Mason: audit of Lacock Abbey books
Orchard & Co: clearance of wood by the bridge, carried by floodwaters
A Beer: rain coming in through roof
L J Pegler: repairs needed and rubbish needs clearing
Wilts County War Agricultural Committee: breaking up of grass lands under Cultivation of Lands Order 1918
Christie Manson & Woods: picturs and furniture for sale
Henry Dixon & Son: photographing Gainsborough's portrait of Mrs Davenport
E K Mackenzie Edwards: requesting details of Cantax House
C R Faunch: requesting details of Cantax House
L C Glyn, R C and M Binney, F Flanders, F A Lane, Margaret I Walters, M GWhitfield, J Barr, Miss M Williamson, L Croydon-Fowler, A Wright, Walter Dandie, Herbert Collins, G F Barnes, Percy Northey, Charles Walters, N Williamson: correspondence following advertisement for rent of Cantax House
Henry L Riseley & Sons: transit risk insurance
The Fine Art and General Insurance Company Limited: insurance for items being sent to Christies for sale
Grace Hay: her share of Miss Talbot's legacy. |