Reference
X106/523
Title
Letter (2 sheets) from Euphemia Attenborough at Coxhill to T C Hipwell.
Date free text
Saturday ? 1914
Production date
From: 1914 To: 1914
Scope and Content
Only got statement today although dated 12 February - blown under a mat.
Did not know about sale of Phipps shares.
Cottages (annual income £16pa) - valued at £278.
Would be quite free if £159.8s were paid off.
Uncle George sent cheque for £100 and Uncle Tom £20 towards it.
Don't mention money matters to Walter Attenborough 'he is a funny man and just now is proving a kind friend'. Sent Joan £10 so should have some money when she reached Portugal. She put £5 in London & Brazilian Bank and took £5 with her. Has asked for Ba's address so may do same.
"Walter Attenborough is a very curious mixture and if he takes it in his head to stand by anyone there's no knowing how much he might do".
Have land and houses in place of the shares.
Feels if old Richard Attenborough had allowed Dick to take the offer he had on South America when 21 things might have been very different.
Note: Walter Attenborough 1850-1932 was MP for Bedford as a Conservative January-November 1910 [for details of his career see Who Was Who 1929-1940]
Level of description
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