HN2/B3/34/3

Letter from Harriette [Elizabeth Trevor Brooks] at Flitwick to George Henry Brooks:

1870

From: 1870 To: 1870

"I am quite prepared to put my signature to any document that may be deemed expedient if you can help my husband out of his difficulties. My suggestion is this perhaps you will agree to letting us have 300 of the Trust Money on condition of my husband insuring for the amount taken for the security of the Trustees. This seems to me the most feasible plan and I am quite willing to agree in my own name and my children's to that arrangement of course the capital of Trust Fund could not be required to be produced till my husband's and my death and in the event of the happening & my husband having Insured for that amount it would be forthcoming then and I will also assure you in a written document if you like the former if at any time should you wish to retire from the Trust of nominating a Trustee yourself - but Willie's Mother as also Miss Shepherd are quite likely to outlive us and therefore the hope that an increase of income might have enabled us to pay those liabilities we could not avoid seems to grow less every day and is telling on Willie's health and spirits entirely preventing his fulfilling as he should the duties of his home and Parish and something must be done at once. You will devise the safest and the wisest course it is just now when our children are growing up that we feel the want of the extra income which we could so well spare later on when their education is finished. We retrench in every way we can. We never see any friends or return any hospitality shown to us and before the change we took for Willie's health into Yorkshire we never gave ourselves any pleasures. I have never been to London for 4 years tho often asked by my cousin Sady Coffin & others with much love. Please give my love to your wife & children"

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Brooks, Harriette Elizabeth Trevor,
Brooks, George Henry,
Brooks, Thomas William Dell,
Brooks, Mary,
Hatfield, Mary,
Shepherd,
Coffin, Sady

George Henry Brooks, clergy names index, specific solicitors, family correspondence, debt, assurance, FLITWICK, Yorkshire, London