XB32B/10
BUNDLE of correspondence mainly from J.H. James, 62 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London W.C., and Hunstanton Hall, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, to Col. Wynne Finch, 61 St. James’s St., [London], and Voelas, Bettws-y-Coed, North Wales, concerning Pooley Hall Estate, including Voelas Court [Leet/Baron] 1881; renewal of lease to Thomas Harding of Ratcliffe Barn Farm [co. Leics.] for 12 years from 1881; discussion of coal workings near Pooley Hall and size of ’pillar’ necessary to protect the buildings, 1882; proposed glass passage at Pooley Hall, designed by Mr. Wilson; proposed agreement by Messrs Dyson to extend coal workings nearer to Pooley Hall, 1882; request by J.G. Trotter, Vicar of Polesworth, for donations to Polesworth parochial schemes (Sunday schools, church expenses, Polesworth Ambulance Society and Polesworth Amateur Gardeners’ Society), 1883; incomplete and unsigned letter from Newbuildings Place, Horsham [co. W. Sussex] to ’my dear Charlie’ [Col. C.A. Wynne Finch] concerning the writer’s [architectural] drawings for work at Pooley, and for a porch at Voelas; Voelas Court Leet May 1884; small clerical business at Little Berwick, co. Salop, 1884. (The bundle is enclosed in a folder labelled ’Letters’ and ’Pooley Hall, Mr. James etc.’.)
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