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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D3580/C/743
Title3 January 1848
C H Oates [at Messina] to `Dearest Henry' [HJ Longsdon, Trinity College, Cambridge]. Busy paying calls and putting her menage in apple pie order - pleasant journey to Naples, rough passage on. Longsdon's uncle much upset by unexpected shock of the failure of his bankers at time when so much of his property at stake. Credit of Messina house materially suffered. No news: people here apparently quiet but it is said that at Naples political disturbances daily and crossed letter from E Oates [uncle Edmund] concerning money which H J offered to lend him asking him to let him know his trustees won't let him have it.
Date1848
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorLongsdon family of Little Longstone
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