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Letter from Henrietta Ann Matthews to her brother, Thomas J Hooper. Sent from 35 High St Newport.

8 June 1868

From: 1868 To: 1868

“I can give you no decided account of how we are getting on. Mr Winter came here Saturday and we talked over your letters and telegram and decided not to send those you wrote to Cordy & Cathcart for being market day Cordy would have been too busy to attend to it, so we asked him to come in here this morning to meet Mr Winter which he did and he seems quite willing to take all at a valuation except, the basons, glass offices, and cupboards, and he would have signed at once but Mr Cathcart throws some other impediment in the way; he says “it is too vague”, this is the second time Cordy would have signed but Mr C raises objections, We are going to have Partridge instead of Sketch and if the paper is signed today, they are to value on Wednesday. We have dismissed Pinching for he has not been sober for the last fortnight, during some part of each day. I send you a paper abut Bixby’s affairs. I fancy we have to pay Murphy about £70 and Spiller about £60 – so we shall lose a great deal of money. The horse only sold for £7. I enclose Goulds papers he has paid £15 fifteen pounds also the two letters you sent me. Turner Nott & Strong have written for me to send the acceptance signed – Fanny [Hooper?] writes me that Henry & Mary [children of the writer] are to stay with her during the holidays but I cannot consent to it, for besides the expence that might be paid for yet the anxiety is more than she could bear and from the account Henry Foquet has sent to me about John’s expenses I feel sure they have not put down more than two thirds of what he has cost them, that I should not be able to guess at their expences. Will you therefore kindly write to her and tell her that you agree with what I have now said to you; and I will write to Mr Friedlander and tell him to pay Henry’s fare to Newport and send him off as he has done the other two boys, Lizzie when her said she would take the entire charge of them, and teach them every day – I am very disappointed that John was not able to pass, I suppose as he could not get through this first examination there is no chance of his being able to pass the second even if he went to London to a crammer.”

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Matthews, Henrietta Ann,
Hooper, Thomas J.,
Winter,
Cordy & Cathcart,
Cathcart,
Bixby,
Partridge,
Sketch, W B,
Pinching,
Murphy,
Spiller,
Gould,
Turner Nott & Strong,
Foquett, Henry,
Hooper, Fanny,
Matthews, Mary Priscilla,
Matthews, Joseph Henry,
Friedlander, G

family correspondence, business, drunkenness, horse