OR2240/11b

Letter ( one sheet) and franked envelope (see note) from Rouse Orlebar from the Mount, Parkstone, Dorset. just home from Bournemouth plain speaking interview with Sophia Orlebar and Aunt Mary how has she saved nothing from large income she has had all her life.

5 July 1893.

From: 1893 To: 1893

claims not enough to see them through after this week or pay the wages. Rouse said ‘we had nothing’ – been obliged to borrow heavily in order to pay her what she had had so far – will do so no longer. Mary will try to make Sophia move next year – Rachel and she had tried to stop her spending money Rouse told her she should live on less than £500 or £600 per annum gave them £20 for pressing needs Sophia ‘much changed and very feeble’ sorry to hear of Richard’s domestic worries Envelope addressed to Mrs Simpson, Fairholme, Christchurch Road, Streatham Hill, London S.W.

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Orlebar, Richard,
Orlebar, Rouse,
Orlebar, Sophia,
Orlebar, Mary,
Simpson

letters, Dorset, family/personal financial affairs