Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
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    X95/291/116
  • Title
    From: William Medland, Dunstable To: Thomas Sworder, Hertford;
  • Date free text
    15 Oct1857
  • Production date
    From: 1857 To: 1857
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    To: Thomas Sworder, Hertford; From: William Medland, Dunstable "I only heard this morning of your safe arrival home, and I trust the change to Lowestoft has been beneficial to you all. I now take the first opportunity of sending you Mr.Pigg's interest and you can send me cheque for the evicted annuity as soon as you get it. I also enclose you my insurance receipts. Poor Tom seems a good deal harassed just at the present time for money but I feel confident from what I can see of the business and I have paid more attention to it lately as he has been more communicative lately with me upon the subject that he has a first rate prospect before him, of course it is like everything else, it will require well looking after which makes me very anxious that he should either get a Partner or some body who could compel an account to be rendered every month to see just how matters really stand which would in my opinion be a kind of check upon him as to his being too easy with his tenants and doing too much to the property before getting the thing into good working order, and I should say with what you have invested and intend doing you could once a month call for this account or run over & see for yourself. I think then he might do without a Partner & keep the affair in yours & Tom's hands which would be desirable I should say if possible, it being too good a business for a stranger to share in, if it can as I have stated before be managed in any way without. I suppose you have seen by the papers what the Fools at Birmingham are enjoying themselves with, seeing what they can do to put us poor Lawyers over board but I fancy they will meet with a great many obstacles in the way at least I write as I feel for I fancy if they get their way a pretty lot of us must go to pot however I hope for better things. I expect my Parents are at Ramsgate as I have heard nothing of them for some time and I am fearful it will be getting too late for them to visit Dunstable this year!!!!! I am happy to say we are all pretty well again, poor little Charley has suffered a good deal these last few days with his teeth but I am thankful to say he is better now".
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