Description | - Letter to Sir Henry FitzHerbert accepting the agency and receivership of the Tissington and Fenny Bentley estates. 17 June 1834 (D239/M/E/4436) - Correspondence relating to the proposed purchase of land at Calton (co. Stafford), 1835-36 (D239/M/E/4441-45) - Correspondence relating to the sale of the Bradbourne estate by Mr Gell, 1835 (D239/M/E/4445) - Letter to Sir Henry FitzHerbert reporting the purchase of the Shaw Close by Sir William Boothby. 8 October 1836 (D239/M/E/4455) - Letter to Sir Henry FitzHerbert , enclosing an account of the estate of Sir William FitzHerbert (d. 1791) in Tissington, not included in his marriage settlement. 18 December 1836 (4457) - Letter to Sir Henry FitzHerbert , reporting a visit to Fletcher's farm, the mere which Fletcher has made on the Hollington is a very good one; reports on delapidations on other farms, 23 April 1837 (D239/M/E/4460) - Letter to Sir Henry FitzHerbert , enclosing statement of account following the Bentley rent day; "Thomas Hardy is getting on well with the school - it will be a very substantial handsome looking building". 8 July 1837 (D239/M/E/4462) [probably refers to Tissington School which was built in 1837/8] - Letter to Sir Henry FitzHerbert , enclosing a valuation of several farms in Tissington, Mr Buckstone at Bradbourne claims 161 acres of tithe free land, the land having originally belonged to Dunstable Priory - "why that is to make it tithe free I do not know...". 24 September 1838 (D239/M/E/4469) - Correspondence relating to a proposed exchange of land between Sir Henry FitzHerbert and the trustees of Ticknall School, and the purchase of land under the Alstonefield enclosure award. 1839 (D239/M/E/4470-76) - Letter to Sir Henry FitzHerbert enclosing an account of lands in Tissington claimed to be tithe free. 25 June 1839 (D239/M/E/4477-78) - Letter to Sir Henry FitzHerbert, reporting that Mr Sanders of Nottingham wishes to give Sir Henry first refusal of his estate near Tissington (320 acres: £17,864). 28 February 1840 (D239/M/E/4480) |