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Letter (two sheets) and franked envelope from Richard, Hinwick House to Frederica , Larden Uncle Cuthbert: no change ‘Barring the C. Alstons, they are always the most unsatisfactory family about letters that I know.’

19 July 1861.

From: 1861 To: 1861

Uncle Cuthbert ‘worth his family ten times over ‘an earnest , warm-hearted, agreeable man’ but only seen him a few days in a year ‘the blow would not fall quite so heavily as if we had been intimate’ if funeral were over, could marry on 30th but mother and father could not be present. his farm bailiff let accounts get behind mentions presents and guests from Richard to Frederica great grandfather’s present to his wife, a ring with a true lover’s knot of diamonds

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Orlebar, Frederica St.John,
Rouse-Boughton, Frederica St.John,
Orlebar, Richard,
Orlebar, Cuthbert,
Alston

letters, Shropshire Larden Hall, Hinwick House, weddings, family/personal financial affairs, rings