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XD32B/6

BUNDLE of correspondence and papers mainly from J.H. James, 62 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London W.C., to Col. Wynne Finch, Royal Hospital, Dublin, and 61 St. James’s St., (London] S.W., and Cefnamwlch, Pwllheli, North Wales, and Voelas, Llanrwst, North Wales, and Nanhoron, Pwllheli, North Wales, concerning Pooley Hall Estate, on various matters including great depression in coal trade and proposal by Colliery tenants to take out second mortgage, 1877; proposed new house at Ratcliffe Barn Farm [co. Leics.] for Mr. Harding, 1877-1878; reference to ’great trial’ 1835 about the Cernioge property [co. Denbigh] 1878; licence to Pooley Colliery Co., to mortgage two leases to Lloyds Banking Co., 1877; agreement with Thomas Harding re Ratcliffe Barn Farm, 1877; bill from John Thomas Woodhouse, Midland Rd., Derby, re survey of Pooley Colliery, 1877; death of Mr. Woodhouse and appointment of Mr. Hewit as Mining Engineer for Pooley Colliery, to act as Colliery Surveyor, 1878; letter from R.C. Creswell, Gresley Colliery, Burton on Trent [co. Staffs.] offering services as Mining Engineer; letter from Nigel Madan, Polesworth Vicarage, Tamworth giving notice to Col. Wynne Finch of a Ratepayers’ meeting re school accommodation at Polesworth, 1878; arrangements for planting of trees and shrubs at Ratcliffe Culey for Thomas Harding and Pooley Hall for Frederick Tibbits, 1878-1879; Colliery owners have become bankrupt and mortgagee is in possession, 1879; explanation of disagreement between Lessor and Lessees of Pooley Colliery about distinction between ’coal’ and ’slack’, 1879; new lease to Pooley Colliery Co., 1880; sale of colliery a failure, 1880; decision to hold Voelas Manor Court every other year instead of every year, 1880; request and acknowledgement from Nigel Madan, Vicar of Polesworth, for a reference in connection with his application for appointment as chaplain of Lincoln’s Inn, 1880; Dysons, new tenants of Pooley Colliery, are losing £20 to £25 a week, 1880. (The bundle is enclosed in a folder labelled ’Letters, Pooley & Mr. James, 1875-1881’.)