W3977

Bundle of papers marked "S.W. various letters 1879-1914"

1879-1914

From: 1879 To: 1914

including papers relating to: Remission of 20% rent on farms on the estate, 1879. Boundary of Southill and Chicksands estates in the Warren, etc., 1881. Election expenditure, 1885. Portraits of Lord Hampden and Samuel Whitbread, 1886 and 1892. Insurances (premiums paid and claims paid out) 1900-1912. Installation of electric works at Southill, 1904. Elstow brickworks (letter from B.J.Forder & Son), 1906. Broken gate at Knotting Fox, 1909. Claypits farm, Southill, 1912. Southill estate benefit club, 1913. Proposed statute of Sir William Harpur in Bedford, 1913. Hunt matters - territorial agreements between Oakley, Cambs. and Herts. hunts, 1913. Southsea allotments, 1914. Family affairs, letters of condolence etc.

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Whitbread, Samuel,
Hampden,
Forder, B.J. & Son Limited,
Harpur, William

estates correspondence, rentals, farms, general boundaries, SOUTHILL, CHICKSANDS, warrens, elections, named portraits, insurance, electricity, brickworks, ELSTOW, Knotting Fox, Southill Claypits Farm, societies clubs, statues, BEDFORD, hunting, OAKLEY, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Southsea, family correspondence