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D3580 - Longsdon family of Little Longstone - [14th-20th Cent]
- C - Correspondence

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D3580/C/579
Title	4 April 1828 Charleston. William Longsdon to Smithers. Received last night letters of 1 and 3 February with another attached from Kate. General contents unpleasant enough. If writer's brother's executors have been playing this deluding game - refusing to L........... the legacies at £4000 they cannot help it nor will their case be mended by abusing them for it. This consent and approbation was given by one and all for the claim of £4000 - every proposition that writer made was founded on that understanding - stated by writer more than once in writing as a sine quâ non and repeatedly in conversation. Of course shall contest the matter with them in writer's own right. If that condition be not complied with, writer's purchase of land as well as his falls to the ground. If condition be complied with writer still in honour bound to fulfil his share of bargain - but now wishes him and requests him not to make any further purchase for writer or to take the house and land in any terms whatever for writer. What he has done in consequence of authority conveyed by his last letter writer is not likely to decline to confirm. If executors lay great stress upon anything which has appearance of bargain or concession on their part may perhaps be necessary, in case try to sell estate in 1 lot including the portion they have bought, to intimate that they shall try to compel fulfilment of their part of contract. If determined to dispute compromise of legacies with them, they will not be able to give a title under a few years that will satisfy a purchaser. Sorry to hear his own difficulties unabated - however, by end February would probably get writer's letter of credit in L&H for £500. Hopes restore his ease of mind and circumstance. Will be very unlucky should he not succeed in getting Ashford farm. Writer would apply for the whole. Business does not go well with them in Charleston this year. Almost everything adverse. Does not know when he may expect writer in England. Perhaps mid or beginning August if not detained in this country.
Date	1828
Level	file
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Longsdon family of Little Longstone
Physical Description	letter press - faint

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