L30/12/9/23

Letter from Thomas Bland [to Alexander Hume-Campbell, 1st Baron Hume of Berwick]. Sent from Colchester. Pleased to hear so good an account of his Lordship’s constitution that it has been able to weather one of the severest winters for some years. The writer has been plagued with 2 or 3 long and tedious colds. Is now confined to home with gout, which is exceedingly painful.

3 Mar 1870

From: 1780 To: 1780

If his Lordship comes to Suffolk this month, the writer hopes he will extend his journey to Colchester; should the writer not be well enough to attend on his Lordship then Mr Smyth would take his place. Mr Carr, the writer’s curate at Colchester, is at the point of death; his physician thinks he cannot live over the night. By his death, the little rectory of Twinstead, Essex will become vacant, and is in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. It is hardly worth £100 per year, but if by his Lordship’s application to the Chancellor it could be procured for Mr Smyth, the addition of a clear £60 or £70 a year to his present income would be an object well worth attending to. ‘The little infant’ [writer’s granddaughter] was christened last Wednesday with the name of Charlotte [Smyth]. The writer was the godfather. Will give orders for another barrel of oysters to be sent to Southill, though afraid that the spring is too far advanced to let them bear so long a carriage as well as the others did.

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Bland, Thomas,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander (1st Baron Hume of Berwick),
Smyth, Charles,
Carr,
Smyth, Charlotte

CORRESPONDENCE, Colchester, curate, gout, Twinstead, Lord Chancellor, parish livings, oysters