Dear Mr Wooldridge

My brother told me that he had arranged all the Insurance with you, so I never imagined that it did not include this house. I suppose it was only the freehold property. This house belongs to Magdalen College I do not know at all what it is worth, as I only pay £3 a year for it under the Copyhold. I suppose it might be about £800, the ... continue reading

Dear Mr Wooldridge The house said to be occupied by E Collins is that of Charles Ray Junior Mrs Collins has been dead these 30 years.

Hall ought to be Pearson John Price rents a very small cottage adjoining his shop, I believe one of Barfoot’s sons sleeps there but Price is accountable for it.

Mrs Bishop is really the tenant of the whole house Ruddock is her lodger Does this make any difference?

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Dear Madam I have now insured all the property.

The cottages for 1600

Your house 800

,, possessions 200

Olford house 300

Mrs Bishops ,, 200

Broadway ,, 300

Hicks ,, & shop 360=

£3760

The premium will all come due at one time, at Ladyday. The amount now due after making allowance on the old policies not yet expired is £4.7.0 for which please send a cheque, this stands from now till ... continue reading

My dear Mary I hope your headache did not forbode influenza. I have been hoping to hear that you were well, for so much seems to be about, and my dear Mary Coleridge is entirely prostrated from it, so that the doctor only says she may recover, and she was so weak and helpless before, not able to get up from her chair, or walk without help, that I scarcely dare to have much hope ... continue reading

My dear Christabel

The Packet will be happy to take Cherry cut down when Heriot’s Choice is over. I am afraid it will last a long time – for I never can succeed in getting in two chapters of Heriot’s Choice- Our pupil teachers have had a paper sent in from Salisbury training college for religious examination, saying 2nd class – Alice Misselbrook 8, Harriet Godwin 18, but whether this means no from the ... continue reading

My dear Christabel

I never thanked you for your last kind note- The loss out of ones life is very great, though the long weakness and inability to correspond had done much to break the habit of dependance for sympathy & confidence so that one can bear it better than if ‘her sun had gone down while it was yet day’.

I have been making efforts through Mr Awdry to get the Blue Bells taken by ... continue reading