HF90/4/2/2/35

Letter from Henrietta Ann Matthews to her brother, Thomas J Hooper. Sent from Caerleon Cottage. Progress of sons at school; general business; bonded stores.

8 Jan 1869

From: 1869 To: 1869

Showed Cordy letter. Mr Winter doesn’t know exactly how much wanted at the bank. “I send you two or 3 leaves out of each of Tom’s exercise books and you may see for yourself how carelessly they have been corrected the black ink corrections are mine (I thought it would save you the trouble of reading them and you could see at a glance). Their manners are altered decidedly for the worse particularly at table. We notice it more perhaps that we find Henry decidedly improved so that if his bill does not much exceed theirs Mr Winter and I think it will be well to remove them soon, particularly as the distance to Swansea is so much less. They tell me they have six weeks holiday but as I have not had the bill I do not know when they are to return to school. Mr Winter says that Willie is now the only tenant of the bonded stores, the other two having given up and Mr W wishes to know what J Lloyd offered for Mr W has had no application at all for the stores and he wishes to let them…” Mr W went to Custom House but they wouldn’t pay him without proof of probate. “I wrote to John about a fortnight since and heard from him this morning he writes home about once a week or ten days. Business has not been very brisk in the shipping line lately Willie says but he thinks he has his full share of what there is. He offered me 50£ a year some time ago for the whole of the bonded stores but I do not think he could manage to pay it with his other expences.”

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Matthews, Henrietta Ann,
Hooper, Thomas J.,
Winter,
Cordy,
Matthews, Benjamin Thomas,
Matthews, Joseph Henry,
Matthews, William Hooper,
Lloyd, J

family correspondence, business