FAC152/1/32

Letter from Reverend Charles Edward Searle to Mrs Askew [Isabel Julia Askew nee Curtis]. Sent from Pembroke College Cambridge

25 April 1879

From: 1879 To: 1879

Notes that the reason he has not written to George for some time is fatigue and nothing more. The College has increased with now more than a hundred students. Has now been tutoring at the College for 10 years. There has been extensive building at the College for the past six years and £60,000 has been spent with £40,000 more to spend. The Hall, the Library and the Lodge for the Principal are all new and when Searle [Charles Searle Askew] comes to Pembroke, as George has threatened, he will find instead of an old college of 500 years, new buildings such as the ones in Victoria. Has regretted that much of the old has been destroyed but was necessary to enlarge and spend this Building Fund which has accumulated for many years and was founded during the time of William Pitt, who was one of our students. Visited Odell last week and stayed at the Castle. Saw Mrs Mary Askew, who was in very poor health, but not James who was able to work. The little girl Fosket was in service and doing very well. Noticed that the wall of Mary Askew's cottage were full of portraits of Isabel Askew, George Askew and young Searle [Charles Searle Askew]. Asks to pass onto George that the Turneys were still at the farm and he saw Mr Sanders. Old Ekins [possibly Samuel Ekins], the landlord of The Bell had just died. Saw George's cousin Martha, who now lives in Lanacashire, and she and her husband are well.

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Searle, Charles Edward,
Askew, George Thomas,
Askew, Thomas George,
Askew, Isabel Julia,
Askew, Charles Searle,
Askew, James,
Askew, Mary,
Fosket,
Askew, Charles Searle,
Turney,
Sanders,
Ekins, Samuel

Canada, British Columbia, ODELL, Cambridge, Cambridge Pembroke College, Odell Bell