• Reference
    W3967
  • Title
    "Private letters - Holkham, 1869-1878": Personal correspondence of Samuel Charles Whitbread
  • Date free text
    1865-1878
  • Production date
    From: 1865 To: 1878
  • Scope and Content
    including: Lady Leicester to "Papa" [i.e. S.C.Whitbread] about visit of Prince and Princess of Wales to Holkham, 9 Jan. 1865 Packet of photographs (5) of Samuel Charles and Lady Mary Whitbread, marked "probably 1869", and letter from Mary to Sam on their wedding anniversary, 18 Feb. 1869. Letter from Midland Railway Company, Derby, to S.C.Whitbread requesting references for two men and responding to complaint about the train service on the Hitchin to Bedford line. Mentions Whitbread's right to stop trains at Southill and Cardington, 5 Oct. 1870 Letters (2) from Lord Leicester, Holkham, to S.C.Whitbread about Annie's marriage to Col. Buller, and financial provision for the couple, 1873. Lord Dacre to S.C.Whitbread, about debts, hunting matters (Lowndes and Oakley Hunt), 1875 Keppell Stephenson to S.C.Whitbread about horse disease in India, 31 Aug. 1878
  • Level of description
    item