Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HN2/B3/34/2
  • Title
    Letter from John Hatfield Brooks at Flitwick to John Thomas Green:
  • Date free text
    24 Sep 1870
  • Production date
    From: 1870 To: 1870
  • Scope and Content
    "As your name is mentioned in the enclosed unpleasant letter received from my brother George [HN2/B3/34/1] this morning in reference to my Brother William's affairs I am impelled, before taking action in the matter, to apply for your friendly aid in counsel. You can understand how for a length of time my brother W's embarrassed state has distressed me but your are not aware and wd not gather from the enclosed how my good mother has done her best to aid him; in 1869 by advancing him 60 (still due) & Giving him a like sum this year, besides help in smaller matters. This is not taken account of and on the other hand I and my family are grudged our residence here! this is what is so galling to me. God knows I am even doing what I can to aid and assist my brother - but this lending 400 is as you know a matter beyond my dear mother's capabilities, or my own. She would gladly give it him, if she could but we know that it would only afford temporary relief. My belief is that their proper & simplest cause is to nullify their Post Nuptial settlement and from the money of Mrs.Brooks' invested under it to take what is necessary to pay off their liabilities. My mother, acting under any advice, wd do her utmost to save my brother from disgrace, but I cannot see how my Brother George's proposal can be arranged, with the Whitehurst business staring us in the face. The 400 wd not be repayed under 20 years!" [the following sections are cross written on the above] "had an independent House & income of his own whereas I as eldest son have not even now the former and without taking one jot of merit to myself or my wife what wuld have been my dear Mother's lot since her Husband's death had we not lived here?" "and why if they have money of their own should it not be made use of? Forgive my troubling you and hoping for an early line in reply with return of these enclosures."
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