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Correspondence G W Powers to T J Hooper

Nov 1888 - Feb 1894

From: 1888 To: 1894

including from 9 Reperton Road, Fulham SW Wells and Company sent £1..13s..4d as usual 8 Nov 1888 leave 9 Reperton Road, Thursday – “no rooms at present” 9 Jul 1889 2 letters Ross and Douglas Norman, 5 Vernon Street, West Kensington, London, solicitors to T J Hooper allowed an extra week at 9 Reperton Road, cannot find lodgings 12 Jul 1889 landlady leaves Monday – “In no case may I go with her” asks T J Hooper to lend him a sovereign had money to go 3 times, always wants somewhere permanent, greatest difficulty 24 Jul 1889 written from 51 Shorrolds Road, Fulham SW asks T J Hooper to send a few pounds for a suit of clothes cannot ask for a loan pawned everything he possesses except clothes he stands up in what price should he ask for equity of redemption on Charles Powers estate 5 Sep 1889 £3 requested ie. stop taking 6s..8d per week for a time. “not ordered any clothes for years” “when given 10s to attend a meeting, get my black coat for the occasion and return it again” (from pawn) for £3 could get coat and boots and shirt out. “I have no trousers to recover” sister waived claim to £20 Roy is owed £21 few friends odd sovereigns offered H E Powers accommodation and food – no reply 19 Sep 1889 received £1..13s..4d – after rent and tradesmen’s bills nothing left undated thanks for £3 24 Sep 1889 “no coat or trousers fit to attend a meeting of gentlemen, no clothes... since virtually declared bankrupt” 11 Sep 1889 “unfortunate affair” means pay out 6s..8d per week” “ I now have neither boots fit to wear, overcoat or mackingtosh, so if the weather is bad I am forced to stay at home” 26 Oct 1889 at home 4 days this week because of weather 30 Oct 1889 thanks for £5, be able to be respectably dressed for some time to come 3 Nov 1889 allow 30s for meeting – not a penny or any clothes to attend in. Hills lent 5s 11 Dec 1889 copies rent book – still no clothes. only owes tradesmen £7 despite 2 years residence Wells and Company take £7 from 1st payment E F Powers Bankruptcy. not dressed well enough to apply for job nor got money for fares 18 Dec 1889 request if only for a few shillings – pays 14s rent etc., 10s grocer’s bill “for all to eat for the week” 6s..8d off T J Hooper account. Total £1..12s..8d no boots to wear except full of holes – cannot pay 2s..6d to get them repaired only goes out after dark present life worrying in the extreme got to leave 51 Shorrolds Road 27 Dec 1889 received £3 cheque – not knows to whom to apply for job 29 Dec 1889 letter from G W Powers to partners of Wells, Hogge and Lindsell Bank on schedule attached to deed which gave G W Powers £2 per week, states Robert Bridge Strange of 206 Upper Richmond Road, Putney SW, 21 October 1887 is entitled to £838 Strange has paid G W Powers 100s of £s about which neither Hooper nor Bank knew of. late C S M Cox supposed to have proceeded in Bankruptcy v. G W Powers £100 paid to square account never from time at Cambridge to 1886 ever paid on any “winning” account will Strange get his money written from 7 Delvins Road, Parsons Green, London SW 29 Jan 1890 G W Powers to T J Hooper T J Hooper’s patience exhausted not before asked for anything to pay little bills send something to keep them quiet or else will be County Court people calling day by day 12 Feb 1890 same to same details bill:- rooms 15s..5d grocer 11s laundress 2s bill 2s..6d borrowed 2s ie. total £1..12s..11d would like to apply to agency – not got railway fare 19 Feb 1890 requests loan of 2 or 3 sovereigns 26 Feb 1890 same request 6 Mar 1890 received final application for £15..18s..4d, would like it up to £20. some small bill owing a long time same to same received £4..1s..8d no further application to be made to T J Hooper 14 Mar 1890 written from 31 Crondace Road, Poole Park, Fulham SW got coat and boots (unbearably heavy) other too shabby to wear wanted alpaca one, an umbrella and shirts, collars, handkerchiefs to save the others. lost nearly new coat and waistcoat cost 3-4 guineas because had not got 8s. could T J H raise a few pounds sometimes a teetotaller 2 or 3 days a week sisters will do nothing rent, gas, bread, dinner on Sunday 14s..6d grocer’s , butcher’s bill 12s cash borrowed 3s laundress 3d £1..20, I have not a 9d till next week 10 Jun 1890 paper £300" (sic) and £2 a week dates from 10 May 1888 and will expire 6 weeks before 10 May 1890 details expenditure 9 weeks 10 Jun 1890 received £1 postal order 12 Jun 1890 letter asking for help for woman who has done for him for years who was kind to him when living in Brighton, brother was late landlord of 33 Egremont Place there came 2 or 3 times to see him at Holloway, brought money for his meals 20 Jun 1890 Mr Peters dead, sister lived with G W Powers for 7 years (for 5 years without pay) couldn’t give her new clothes could T J Hooper send anything 31 Jun 1890 T J Hooper releasing 6s..8d difference between comfort and discomfort!! Hills advanced £300 some years ago (£20 to lady above) which G W Powers had borrowed only paid half, would like to pay for black mourning dress 27 Jun 1890 written from 42 Flavell Road, East Hill, Wandsworth SW requests sovereign – old accounts under £10. £2 a week for 3 years would be £312 not £300 6 Aug 1890 requests 2 or 3 sovereigns “have but 1 coat and one pair of trousers, patched in half a dozen places - no waistcoats, 6 shirts, no vests, collars etc. run no bills this year 6s..8d being released – more comfortable, paying back some of his debts 23 Oct 1890 final application for money, could T J Hooper advance £5. Hooper and Company won’t say how much indebted G W Powers is to them when T J Hooper away in Norway 3 letters from his clerks “too drunk to be placed in (witness) box” (regarding Cox) £2 keeping 2 people!! always lived in respectable houses accuses T J Hooper of putting him in Holloway [prison] rails against Hugh – accuses T J Hooper of not having assent of “United Family” 29 Oct 1890 kept waiting in courtyard for 3 hours without having had breakfast coals and lights additional now “no decent suit to go out in” would like to go somewhere where not known 31 Oct 1890 wish had not written letter 2) above 13 Nov 1890 thanks for £5 holds certificate for solicitors at Incorporated Law Society’s Club, Chancery Lane 7 years ago would like to be clerk to an attorney for choice 17 Nov 1890 thanks for £5 – says could not be a tramcar or omnibus inspector as T J Hooper suggests because would need Police Certificate 18 Nov 1890 not responsible for other tenants in lodgings 25 Nov 1890 wants appointment – no inducement to drinking 27 Nov 1890 no alcohol since 17 December 1890 wants to leave Wandsworth 18 Feb 1891 T J Hooper waived claim to balance to come to G W Powers would like 6 weeks money for a month C S Lindsell given £2 enabled him to get other rooms 25 Mar 1891 wishes to borrow £1..10s pay off 5s per week 30 Mar 1891 thanks for 30s 10 Mar 1891 was teetotal for 4 months, wants ticket to Manchester/Newcastle 22 Apr 1891 can’t pay 5s per week, has to pay rent in advance since December 30 Apr 1891 last £2 to come [from Wells and Company] 25s to grocer, 13s to landlord, dairy 8s weekly bill to laundress requests T J Hooper to tide him over 8 May 1891 Annie still paying money for a short while 8 Dec 1891 asks for 3s 15 Dec 1891 thanks for 5s 19 Dec 1891 reckons should have interest for money still due to be paid at end of 1st and 2nd years of 3 years 2 Jan 1892 after paying rent 10d a day to live on, asks for a few shillings 10 Jan 1892 letter G W Powers to Hills thanks for 2s..6d – helped as nearly out of coal congratulations on marriage GW Powers intended only to sell what would revert to him and not what sisters will leave him of their £1000 6 Feb 1892 to Hills if want reply, stamped addressed envelope needed sisters power to leave to him residue of £1000 NB pencil comments of Hills, G W Powers says was drunk when he did it (denied by Hlls) not a penny – feels guilty re 25s thanks for £5 December – otherwise been in rags 22 May 1891 no further credit from grocer cannot pay rent, laundry etc. “I have a small piece of bread just borrowed and a piece of cheese” 31 May 1891 thanks for £1 postal order 2 Jun 1891 notice to quit 42 Flavell Road by 13th sisters have helped – can do no longer guarantee sobriety, honesty and punctuality to employer. any copying work? 10 Jun 1891 only food for today, debt a few shillings – teetotaller 9 Jul 1891 will have to pawn coat, boots cannot be repaired further asks for a few shillings 24 Jul 1891 thanks for £2 – teetotaller a month, wants to get away from Fulham 26 Jul 1891 had nothing but bread and water for 1 or 2 meals – no butcher’s meat for a fortnight been given money to leave before but always already bespoken only owe week’s rent and laundry no credit and no fire 22 Sep 1891 thanks for cheque £4 26 Sep 1891 for some weeks 15s per week to live on, rent reduced 2s a week landlord a labouring man 1 Dec 1891 sister Lizzie sent 5s per week Annie 10s per week last few weeks – Annie not sent anything this week written letters to Mrs George Powers who had been staying with Annie – re Faversham Brick Yards 3 Dec 1891 drew attention to E F Powers overdraft did not read documents in many cases teetotaller since December 1890 (except May and June) Feb 1892 to Hooper asks for sovereign – 12s..6d a week to live on week rent and fortnight laundress owed 16 Feb 1892 thanks for £1 postal order 18 Feb 1892 need letter to take to Swan Brewery, Fulham 15s..9d owed 2 years 18 Feb 1892 re signing deed:- his share of quart and half of champagne at lunch and more at the “Gloucester” – did not read ½ dozen lines – signed away £3000; thought own private overdrawn account on Bank + £6 per week Fred allowed to draw for him was included in debt of £3000 between Wells and Company and Hooper – did not know that was correct figure 24 Feb 1892 County Court Summons for the 15s..9d,grocer owed 28s, another firm 6s 24 Feb 1892 letter Swan Brewery to Hooper and Company re 15s..9d telegram to Hooper; come at once – Powers is locked up 24 Feb 1892 GW Powers, T J Hooper loan asked for of £5 (pay 10s per week) teetotaller nearly a year got to pay 2s a month cannot stay longer at 42 Favell Road 26 Mar 1892 down to 12s..6d a week from sisters may go down to 10s dry bread for breakfast several days this week does not wish to leave rooms if could get employment 9 Apr 1892 thanks for £1 rowers on river – apprenticed to repair and build boats not merely to row professionals train crews requests old covert coat 12 Apr 1892 now down to 10s owe £1 rent – can’t send to laundress because owe 3 weeks 14 May 1892 will have to go now as rent 6s per week and 10s only income, want help getting cheaper lodgings 21 May 1892 have paid 4s rent, dined 4 times in a restaurant in 4 years (by invitation) 27 May 1892 thanks for Postal order for £1 31 May 1892 written from 14 Hanover Gardens, Kennington Oval SE letter for employment needed 21 Jun 1892 cannot meet rent – nice people, all square but nothing left to raise money on applied for work at Smith and Company’s. Camomile Street – blank would like work in Law Stationers 25 Jul 1892 cannot live on 10s – always down by 8 o’clock “never lived such a steady life” Hugh 6 months ago took shelter at Flavell Road nowhere else to go 3 Aug 1892 old schoolfellow trying to get him employment, probably in large Law Stationers 5 Sep 1892 thanks for £1 postal orders 10 Sep 1892 needs money to get clothes out of pawn, trying to get work 15 Oct 1892 written from 11 South Island Place, Brixton Road SW help to get waistcoat out of pawn needed 20 Oct 1892 bitterly cold – hope for further help from T J Hooper 1 Nov 1892 further help needed 24 Nov 1892 met man at Trinity College when G W powers at (rowed against Oxford) Banker from Newcastle can’t employ him but cousin in wine trade needs a money collector. please send reference, not tasted alcohol since July 1891 member of bank sent at £1 5 Dec 1892 regarding letter of reference to F H Lamb junior of Forth House, Newcastle upon Tyne 6 Dec 1892 thanks for testimonial 7 Dec 1892 seen Lamb’s brother – salary of £40 per annum if want G W Powers 6 Jan 1893 had to part with decent coat – cannot pay rent letter from Newcastle fear no openings but could start at 10s per week 15 Feb 1893 T J Hooper unwell – useless to extricate G W Powers from difficulties, can’t get credit for loaf of bread £2 sent by 3 members of Bank (named) 27 Feb 1893 position worse, no funds 3 Mar 1893 copy of letter from Lamb and Company 16s per week- relatives to guarantee 12s fortnights trial Charles Lindsell and Frederick Archdale got him out of difficulties here 21 Mar 1893 thanks for £2 – hope T J Hooper will provide security if necessary 23 Mar 1893 written from 48 Westmoreland Terrace, Newcastle on Tyne started work, office boy type of work, likes employment very much Hugh came to lunch 30 Mar 1893 cousin will get things out of pawn, Hugh will have great difficulty in getting employed 17 May 1893 thanks for £2 present – use an umbrella every day – bought out of T J Hooper’s money won’t take pledge – probably could have moderate amount 29 May 1893 one sister does not send, other reduced to 3s a week and going to 2s. redeeming items from pawn need help fixing few liabilities left final appeal for help T J Hooper using Lamb and Company to supply his wine Lizzie very ill has to work in cellars when no bookwork – no advance in salary 5 Oct 1893 written from 17 Wharncliffe Street, Newcastle thanks for order of 6 gallons of whiskey by T J Hooper “a self made responsibility since 1881” sent for by Mrs Phillips to go see very ill sister Lizzie 24 Oct 1893 “challenges anyone to say he had since 1881 derived any benefit from assistance been given to person referred to” £1 safely to hand Lizzie under influence of chloroform is better, considerably wasted. black rimmed border for death of Lizzie little of value at Tickhill better not go to any expense does not like Newcastle, prefers London will not throw up 18s a week 20 Feb 1894 satisfied executrix will do job properly 27 Feb 1894

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Hooper & Fletcher,
Powers, Charles,
Charles Powers and Co.,
Powers, George Walter,
Hooper, T J,
Hooper, Thomas James,
Wells & Company,
Norman, Ross & Douglas,
Ross & Douglas Norman,
Powers, Hugh Edward,
Hills, Arthur John,
Powers, Edmund Frederick,
Wells, Hogge & Lindsell,
Strange, Robert Bridge,
Cox, Charles Sinclair Middleton,
Peters,
Hooper & Company,
Incorporated Law Society of the United Kingdom,
Lindsell, Charles Samuel,
Powers, Annie Amelia,
Powers, Elizabeth Kidman,
Powers, George,
Swan Brewery,
Trinity College, Cambridge,
Lamb, F H,
Lamb & Company,
Archdale, Frederick,
Phillips

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