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BUNDLE of correspondence and papers mainly from J.H. James, 62 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London W.C., and Norfolk House, Thames Embankment, London W.C., and Biddick Hall, Fence Houses, and Ringswood, Watford, co. Herts., to Col. Wynne Finch, 61 St. James’s St. [London] S.W., and Voelas, Bettws-y-Coed, and Cefnamwlch, Pwllheli, North Wales, and 11 Bruton St. [London] concerning Pooley Hall Estate, including request by J.G.Trotter, Polesworth Vicarage, Tamworth, for contribution to Polesworth Church Heating Fund, 1884; hailstorm affecting Mr. Harding’s crops, 1884; low prices of grain and fat stock, 1884-1885; letter from Catherine S. Hett, Polesworth, requesting contribution to Polesworth Bazaar, 1885; request by Messrs. Dysons, tenants of Pooley Colliery, to compound mine rent due to poor state of coal trade, 1885-1886; reference to election result in Watford Division [co. Herts.] and Holborn Division of Finsbury [London], 1885; J.G. Trotter’s request for subscription to Polesworth Sunday Schools, 1886; agricultural depression, 1886; North Warwickshire Conservative Association’s voting registration form for Pooley Hall, parish of Polesworth, 1 June 1886; correspondence with Frederick Tibbits of Pooley Hall about Polesworth Churchyard Extensive Scheme with list of subscribers, 1887-1888; renewal of Mr. Harding’s lease of [Ratcliffe] Barn Farm [co. Leics.] 1889; new cottages to be built at Pooley, 1899; letter from C.R. Hewitt, London Rd., Derby, thanking Col. Wynne Finch for appointing him as Mining Agent at Pooley Hall Colliery, 1902; Judgement of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, in the case of Wynne-Finch v. Chaytor and others, re working of Pooley Hall Colliery, with correspondence mainly from H. Manisty, Nicholl Manisty & Co., 1 Howard St., Strand, London W.C., to Col. Wynne Finch, 1902-1903; Insurance Policies on Pooley Hall, 1878 and 1884, and on Radcliffe Culey [ie. Ratcliffe Barn Farm] near Atherton [Atherstone], co. Leics., in the tenure of Edward and John Eaton, 1859 and 1884. (The bundle is enclosed in the binding of a printed book, ’Recollections of Eton by an Etonian’, and labelled ’Pooley & Mr. James’.)
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