HN2/B3/19/9

Letter from John Hatfield Brooks to John Green asking for advice and quoting in full two letters received from Capt. Bird re proposals to cancel the marriage settlement ‘…I have offered in my letter of the [?] Feby 1852 all that I conscientiously can to meet the existing difficulty Mr Green says the better plan would have been to allow the Family Lawyers &c – where were the family lawyers in Calcutta does he not know that a settlement can only be made previous to marriage, any made after, can be set aside and have no standing, but a settlement properly executed before marriage, neither Mr Green, or any lawyer can annual…’

2 Sept 1852

From: 1852 To: 1852

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Brooks, John Hatfield,
Green, John,
Bird, Robert Wilberforce