| Administrative History | - William Shore Smith: Florence Nightingale's cousin
- Albert Frederic Hurt of Alderwasley Hall
- Miss Hurt: not identified |
| Transcript or Index | Coffee room: Whatstandwell
Lea Hurst
Nov 27/80
My dear Sir
Mr Shore Smith informed me of the conversation which you & he had had this afternoon on the proposed coffee room at Whatstandwell, & showed me Miss Hurt's kind letter
Mr Shore Smith & I agree, I am afraid, that the buying up of the "Wheatsheaf" scarcely offers enough inducement to balance the cost. To buy the licence would probably take money enough to build three coffee rooms: would it not? And who is to secure us against another licence being obtained & another "public" being set up in the "Wheatsheaf's" place?
To start with the smallest in place of the largest outlay would seem wise in an undertaking of which we cannot guarantee the success.
You mentioned ^to Mr Shore Smith^ a small piece of land belonging to Mr Hurt (& let? to a cottage on the left of the spot where the quarry road comes out upon the Crich Carr road just above the steep descent to Whatstandwell & below The "Wheatsheaf."
Would you kindly enquire after looking at this piece of ground - if you think it suitable whether , if it is not ? let on lease Mr Hurt might possibly let it for such a purpose as this - the trying an experiment of a Coffee room & Pay Office for the quarrymen?
Perhaps you would be so good as to mention it to Miss Hurt.
Mr Shore Smith thinks we might get a Corrugated Iron building such as are made for
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schoolrooms & containing possibly a bedroom for a manager, to put up on this ground. And this would be trying under the best circumstances in our power what can be at first but an experiment without a large & discouraging outlay.
What do you think? We bid you "God speed" on your high errand and wait anxiously for the result, which we hope to hear perhaps in a day or two.
Pray believe me
ever yours faithfully
Florence Nightingale
C.B.N. Dunn Esq.
I return Miss Hurt's letter with thanks |