Dear Madam I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your cheque.

I think that as your money is invested & producing interest you may as well wait until a short time before 1 April & then give your Bankers instructions to sell sufficient to produce £1000, so that it may be ready a day or two before the 1st

I am yours faithy Chas Wooldridge

Miss Yonge

Dear Madam I have received all the documents from the Insurance Company & also the policy on Mrs Yonge’s life. As I presume the £1000 is still due to you from Mrs Yonge shall you wish to have the policy transferred into your name so as to afford you a security for the amount of any interest or premiums you have paid, or how would you like to have this arranged.

I am yours faithy Chas Wooldridge

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Dear Mr Wooldridge I am afraid I am very ignorant about the term of the loan of the £1000. I cannot say I ever expect Mrs Yonge to pay it back to me. She does not even know that I have paid it off.

If I discontinue the payment for insuring her life, will the future payment of £1000 on her death lapse.

Or if I continue it, or my heirs (for I can hardly expect ... continue reading

Dear Madam If you discontinue the payment of the annual premium on the life policy, it will drop altogether & no sum whatever will be received if Mrs. Yonge were to die. If you decide on this course, the best plan will be to wait until the latter part of next October for the surrender of the policy to the office. They will pay you about £100 for it. If on the other ... continue reading

Dear Mr Wooldridge, I think it will be wise to keep up the insurance on Mrs Yonge’s life. The only further question is whether it should be mentioned in my will that the payment should be continued, and to whom the amount should be paid.

On this I will write to Mr Houseman who made my will.

I enclose the cheque for the insurance understanding that it covers all the houses here and in London

Yours truly C M ... continue reading

Dear Madam Judging from your former letter that you do not expect Mrs. Yonge to pay for the £1000 I think it will be best to have the policy transferred to you. For that purpose it will be necessary that Mrs. Yonge should sign the transfer. Will you kindly write to her & explain this & say that she may expect to hear from me. I have duly recd the cheque for £1.15. ... continue reading

Dear Mr Wooldridge

Mrs Yonge comes to Otterbourne Vicarage this afternoon, and will be in the village till some day next week. I think you had better send the papers to me, as I am not certain whether she will be at the Vicarage or the Grange, and I will get her signature

Please pay the 4/ and add to your account

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam I enclose the deed for Mrs. Yonge’s signature in one place only where you will see her name written in pencil. This signature should be made in the presence of a witness who will sign where shewn adding address & occupation, a householder is best, but a servant will do. You must not, of course, be the witness. Please leave the date blank & return me the deed as soon ... continue reading

Dear Madam I expect to receive the Policy from the Norwich Union Office in a day or two & will then forward it to Mrs. Yonge as you wish. You know of course that at the present time the Policy is absolutely your property & stands in your name with the Company

I am yours faithy Chas Wooldridge

Miss Yonge Lady Seaton’s Beechwood Devon

Dear Madam I have sent the policy to Mrs. Yonge as you desired.

I have had a letter from her, she does not seem to understand about it. I have written to her to explain that you having paid the money besides the interest & premiums the policy had to become your property.

I have not told her what you led me to suppose you thought of doing with regard to this policy, as I did not ... continue reading

Dear Madam

The insurances existing are as follow

£360 in premises occupied by Hicks. £1700 on Rising Sun & various cottages £300 on House occupied by Mimksn [?]

I do not appear to have any insurances on your own House or the contents Shall I get you a Policy for it & contents or only for £200 on Contents

I am yours faithy Chas Wooldridge

Miss Yonge

£200 seems to me rather a small sum

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 You have the deed of gift executed from my brother to me of Hicks’s cottage therefore there can be no doubt that it is my property and he certainly told me that he meant to make it over to me but he never seems to have told any one here, and Hicks has been paying rent to him and Mrs Yonge ever since.

The accounts have been so mixed with repairs for cottages that ... 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 It appears that the three houses occupied by the County Police, Mrs Jewell & Mrs Light are additional to the list I sent you, & are not insured I am sorry to trouble you again but if you will let me know the materials with which these three are built & covered I will add them to the insurance Policy at £100 each & the whole matter will then be in order

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Dear Mr Wooldridge Those three cottages form one block, they are of cement, and tiled 4 roomed brick foundations and chimneys, but cemented in frames in the walls

Yours truly C M Yonge

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