HN2/B3/53

Letter from Edgar F Jenkins to John Hatfield Brooks.

23 Mar 1888

From: 1888 To: 1888

‘Many thanks for your kind note of the 20th Inst, and for the figures therein shewing what the personal estate of your father consisted of at the date of his death. The £3000 Irchester mortgage is included in the list of assets and I suppose I may assume that the whole of your father’s personalty subject to the amounts paid by you to your Brothers – became absolutely you own after the death of your mother. Seeing that after your death, the dear mother (for her life) and then Katie, will become owners of the Irchester property I should advise that the £3000 “debt” should at once be discharged by a simple endorsed deed, such as I suggested when I saw you, and I have written to ask Tanqueray if he knows of any reason why this should not be done. It would certainly be more simple to do it now, than hereafter, and to keep the “debt” alive is only to retain an unnecessary blot substanding upon the Irchester title. If you agree to this, I can soon knock up a little deed after the appointment of the new Trustees is completed. I have heard from Tanqueray that he has this matter in hand. I am glad to hear of your safe arrival at Flitwick, & I hope you are continuing in good spirits and that you will steadily improve in health, now that you are inside the old portals again!...’

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Jenkins, Edgar Francis,
Brooks, John Hatfield,
Brooks, Catherine Mary Frances

Irchester, estates correspondence