• Reference
    OR2308/8
  • Title
    Part of letter from Frances Rouse-Boughton to Frederica side (a) 13 Devonshire Place lent by Sir Edward Hamilton for his distant cousin "to be at his own wedding cake cutting"
  • Date free text
    (January 1904)
  • Production date
    From: 1904 To: 1904
  • Admin/biog history
    Arthur Devereux Cripps died 29 December 1903. He married Georgina Hotham in 1889. Her sister Eleanor married Sir William Rouse-Boughton on 1 October 1878 [Burke's Peerage 1949]
  • Scope and Content
    House belonged to Frances and Frederica's grandfather Sir Charles Rouse-Boughton (after he sold his house in Grosvenor Square), father and nephew house offered to the sisters but declined because want to live in the country Her father showed them the wicker gate allowing him and his sister Louisa to play safely on the landing. side (b) death of Mr Cripps, a solicitor, brother in law of Eleanor Rouse-Boughton - died on Christmas day
  • Level of description
    item