Feb 2014
1816 22/11 Gentlemen Hayle
Mill
At the request of Mrs Balcombe a
parishioner of yours who works for me I write to say that she is not able to
support herself with the wages she receives being in a bad state of health and
the days very short she humbly hope you will allow her 2 shilling per week to
help her through the winter as she hopes to support her self in the summer I think her a
person deserving your aid your answer will oblige as something must be done
shortly
I remain Gentlemen. Your obt Sernt
John
Green
[CKS Cranbrook,
Kent Overseers Miscellaneous. Lletter from
John Green of Hayle Mill ref/ p100/16/7 date 1815-1817]
1827 20/10 Letter
to Charles Ellis Secretary Committee of Earl Street Chapel
Maidstone
My Dear Sir
Having after mature and very anxious deliberation come to
the decifion to accept of an invitation which I have received from the
morning congregation of Worship
Street London.
I beg leave through you to intimate to the Committee my
intention of resigning my office as Minister of Earl St Chapel in three months from this time. And I can afsure
you that I do this with feelings of sincere regret that my connexion with the
Society will have been so short, with sentiments of gratitude for the kindnefs I have experienced, of lively attachment to many
of its members which I hope my removal to London will not destroy, and with a
very earnest desire that my place may be supplied by a Minister every way
better fitted to promote their individual and the general good.
I am my dear sir. Yrs
and the Society’s obliged friend. Benjamin Mardon
[Records held at the chapel]
1851 Dec Letter
from Samuel Green to John Green Hayle Mill
‘Sevenoaks Dec.1851.
My dear brother, last Christmas I wrote to you stating that as profits
have been seriously cut down I thought it only right that you should submit to
some deduction in your salary. My letter
was not answered with the spirit in which it was written but I was told that if
I did not like it I might give you a years notice to quit. I was and am now exceedingly unwilling to
have any misunderstanding with you but I must protest my own interest. I now write to propose that after the 31st
of Dec. your salary shall be £150 pounds with house rent free. After the manner in which my last letter was
received I forbear to say any more but that I hope to receive your reply by the
28th December and that if we cannot then agree I must give you the
notice referred to.
Your
affectionate Brother Samuel Green
[Letter book
1851-1855 HMA 7/1/1/]
1852 Undated letter but
from its content September 1852 – it was amongst the papers of Henry Green [Ref: JA/B15]
My dear son Ashford Road
I am very glad to inform you that J Barcham
Green and I have at last brought things to a settlement and I have got the
agreement he as secured J Green & Son to himself I should not have had an income without
selling the name I am to have £100 per
year £25 per quarter for my life and your Mother £50 per year for her life to
be paid quarterly I am exceedingly
sorry I was obliged to do so on account of my sons you know that your uncle Saml bought my life in Mount Pleasant Estate and
your two sisters and John and Charles shares there are two or three persons
want to by Thurnham Estate I think your share is
worth 150 to £160 it lets at £15 per year 30 year purchase at 75 2250 12 shares
On reverse is written: this is part of a letter I have just
found some things I have not mention in the new letter so you have them both in
a very unfortunate state I am sure you
will spare my hand and study
Another letter undated
I thought you should know how my brother stands We are all well that is your mother
self and sisters Mrs Powell all very well pray write me soon I am obliged to you for sending the news
paper to me and with many thanks for the present you sent I am in hopes we shall do now pretty
well With my […] to Mrs Green self and family
I remain my dear son
Affect John Green
My brother Saml when I
was in trouble took everything I had and now I think I have very much over paid
him
1852 8/11 Letter from John Barcham
Green to Mr John
Green, Post Office Box Glasgow
Dear Sir, You are no doubt aware that my uncle has for a
long time been unable to attend to business and he has now expressed a wish to
retire and I feel persuaded that a removal to some drier place is the only
chance he has of recovery – In making arrangements for his retirement I propose
paying up to Christmas the same salary as before and afterwards 100£ per year
including the interest of 200£ at 4 per cent which I owe him, for his life
[insurance?] I now wish to ask whether you (& I write to Chas by same post [Charles William
Green Edinburgh] are willing to enter into an agreement with
an other effect that in the event of your “entering” into business as a paper
maker you will not use the trade mark of J Green & Son to mind a detriment
nor authorise any person to do so that if from any made I should be to pay the
said £100 per year that you & Chas be and in whatever way you think shall
for yourself ………
[Letter book
1851-1855 HMA 7/1/1
p 121] [Similar letter to Charles
William Green p128]
1852 14/11 Letter
from Charles William Green to his cousin John Barcham
Green
Valleyfield, Penicuick
My dear John: I understood that it was in contemplation
when your father entered in possession of Hayle Mill to have admitted my father
to a part in the concern in consideration of the name etc and that a promise to
this effect or something very much like it was made. For reasons which are understood this
arrangement never took place, and I think you will
admit that if it had his position might have been somewhat different.
I think the proposition herein contained you will not
consider at all unreasonable and that is that on his retiring from the business
at Hayle Mill in consideration of the benefits which accrue from your retaining
the power of using his name or that of J. Green & Son: he be allowed the
sum of one hundred pounds yearly during his life and in case my mother survived
him that she after his demise during her life have the sum of fifty pounds per
annum paid to her.
Trusting you will not deem this proposition at all exorbitant.
I am dear John
Yours very truly,
Charles W. Green [HMA 8/3/85]
1852 Undated letter but
I think from content its September 1852 – it was amongst the papers of Henry
Green
My dear son Ashford Road
I
am very glad to inform you that J Barcham Green and I
have at last brought things to a settlement and I have got the agreement he as
secured J Green & Son to himself I
should not have had an income without selling the name I am to have £100 per year £25 per quarter
for my life and your Mother £50 per year for her life to be paid quarterly I am exceedingly sorry I was obliged to do
so on account of my sons you know that
your uncle Saml bought my life in Mount
Pleasant Estate and your two sisters and John and Charles shares there are two
or three persons want to by Thurnham Estate I think
your share is worth 150 to £160 it lets at £15 per year 30 year purchase at 75
2250 12 shares
On reverse is written: this is part of a letter I have just
found some things I have not mention in the new letter so you have them both in
a very unfortunate state I am sure you
will spare my hand and study
Another letter undated
I thought you should know how my brother stands We are all well that is your mother
self and sisters Mrs Powell all very well pray write me soon I am obliged to you for sending the news
paper to me and with many thanks for the present you sent I am in hopes we shall do now pretty
well With my very kind love to Mrs
Green self and family. I remain my dear son. Affect
John Green
My brother Saml when I
was in trouble took everything I had and now I think I have very much over paid
him
16 years rent half part farm £37.10 per year £600
John and Charles 2 shares in farm £200
Rags at [….]wharf set of £600
My life policy worth at my death 1500 plus he int
John
“ “ all was sold
[….] sum all together £500
£1900
Some time the family may say I
owed their father money but I do not he owed me
1857 17/6 Letter from Eliz Ellis to John Barcham
Green
My dear John, Ashford Road
As my Mother is now in Devonshire
and I am going from home to day will you be so good as to pay her annuity to Mr
Ellis Senr when it is due and he will give
you an acknowledgement of it. I remain. Yours truly/ Elizth M Green
Maidstone June 24th 1857
Recd of Mr
J Barcham Green Twelve pounds ten shillings due 24th
June 1857
£12.10. Charles Ellis. [HMA 1857 1/18/3]
1853 14/10 letter to Henry Green from his father
My dear son Ashford Road,
On my return here on Monday I found a letter from you and I
was exceedingly glad to have one I have
not had a letter for you for so long a time it give me great pleasure to hear
that you and Mrs Green and all your family was quite well You mother I am happy to say is quite well
and your sisters also I thank the last present you sent me I ought to have
thank you before the Docktor [sic] bill was large all
paid off and I think we are going on pretty well and thank a kind providence
for all his mercies. I am going to meet
Mr Leaney on Monday and if he wants to pay the £300 Bond can you find
out a place to put out the money at 7 per cent he only pays 4 per cent
I hope you and Mrs Green will come and stop a week or two
we shall be very happy to see you most likely it will be the last time both our
ages make 164 years your uncle Saml was in his 84 year there are 3 or 4 persons
wanting the offer of Mount Pleasant Farm
My brother family have nine shares you Mr Marden
and Mr Powell have three shares it lets for £25 per year 30 years parches [sic]
on land you know your uncle had my life interest on the rent so I have not
anything to do with it so the nine share holders do not want to sell as they
have all the rent your share is worth £250 if you like to sell and Mr Bucking
executor would by your part £7.10.0 interest
I am not sure you can sell before my death Charles nor John have not wrote me for a very
long time I cannot say what can be their reason I cannot say but I feel very
much hurt having no business I have no one to talk to I am sometimes low
spirited I am in dark times. [Ref: JA/B15]
1854 13/3 Letter written to
Mary Green from John Phillip Green
London
Dear Mother
Before my note reaches you you
will no doubt have heard that my grandfather died on Saturday morning about 11
o’clock. Harry Powell came to me
yesterday in the early part of the afternoon to tell me and of course I did not
go to Hampstead to do the tearooms. He arrived just as I was setting out. I
called at Finsbury Square
yesterday evening and saw Aunt Powell who told me more about it than Harry had
done. My grandfather tho’s
he had in a great ……lost consciousness towards the last does not seem to have
suffered much from his complaint and all that could be done was done. We shall
all be very sorry to lose him & shall think of him as a good &
thoroughly kind hearted man. Will my father come to Maidstone. I suppose
he will and how will it be about my going down. Let me hear by return please. I
received your note safely this morning and have hurried up just in time to
answer it. I think if you would direct
ordinary letter to ……school it would be better as I should then get them early
in the morning. However in such a case as this it was perhaps better as it was. Give my love to my father and all and believe
me. Yours very
affectionately. John
Philip Green
If my father comes would you ask him to bring my Caeser that I think is in my bed room but it was in the
schoolroom. It is a small dark backed book and is Dachnes
Edition. I am wanting
it in class
My dear Henry Ashford
Road Nov
26th 1854
I have been thinking lately that
it is a long time since letters has passed between us, and as I know that [….] […] part of our family is always interesting
to the other I write now hoping soon to hear what you are all
doing. Dear mother
[….] […..] being home here last Friday week. She seems to be remarkably well and is
pleased with the arrangements made for her reception, and it is a great relief,
and comfort to us to have her actually under our own roof. Her greatest hope that Ann
Mardon will come to spend Christmas day with us but her stay will only be for a
few days as she will be anxious to go to Sidmouth to
settle in her new home. Our plans
for the holiday are not yet determined.
If Mrs Mardon should remain in London for a short time after Christmas
Louisa will most likely go into Devonshire with Ann to help her get her new
house ready; in which case they will both leave here on the 26th Dec
and Louisa will be away a fortnight. But should Mrs Mardon decide to go with
Ann, Louisa will not accompany them. At
all events, I hope Louisa will be at home again about Jan 12th when
if dear Annie and Ellen or indeed if any of your family can come and stay with
us for a short time before we begin our school duties again, we shall be very
much pleased to see them. Let us know
soon if we may hope for a visit from any of you and though the weather is not
very inviting at this season of the year yet we can promise them a hearty
welcome in doors. I suppose you have
heard of Mary Green’s serious illness at Kidderminster;
we were very glad this morning to have rather an informed account, but I fear
it will be some time before she will be well enough to be brought home. We still have little Katie with us and we all
feel very glad that Mrs Charles Green has been prevailed upon to delay her
voyage to Canada till the
Spring. Kate is a very sweet little
child and doing nicely with us in every way.
Will you thank dear Mary for the silk which she sent us for a frock for
Kate which will make a very pretty nice dress.
We are very much enjoying our new
school room(s) and wondering now that we have the comfort of more space how we
could have done before.
The headstone to our dear
father’s memory has lately been completed and (Lawhinson)
being in want of the money for it, came to us for payment as he had written to John
(about a fortnight ago) sent a post office order for half the amount and at the
sametime doubted not that you would send us an
order for the other half. As we have
heard nothing about it from you, I think it right to mention what has
passed with John and should you be sending soon, will you have the order made
payable to Louisa Green . My
mother and Louisa write with me our most kind love to dear Mary, yourself and
your circle and believe me ever,
Your affectionate sister. Eliz M Green
1855 8/1 Letter from Elizabeth M Green to her
cousin John Barcham Green [HMA 1/18/2]
Sir, My mother desires me to thank you for the cheque
received yesterday and to say that as her sight is not good enough to write her
name easily now I have signed the receipt for her which I hope will be
satisfactory to you. I remain, Sir, Yours respectfully, Elizbth
M. Green
1855 16/4 Maidstone 16th
April 1855
Dear Sir
The sums I had for your Sisters Mrs Marden
Mrs Powell and yourself are stated on the other side. As I had 3 or 4 attendances at Somerset House
before I cd get the amounts
passed my charge for such attendances and the preparation of this sum and
copies will be £1 in each case. I hold the receipts where are documents of
letter affecting the proberty. I am Dear Sir. Yours faithfully
I cannot read the signature
The Rev H Green [from
the papers of Henry Green]
1855 26/6 Letter from Elizabeth M. Green [Henry
Powell’s sister-in-law] to her cousin John Barcham
Green
My dear
Cousin, ‘Ashford Road
By the memory of former friendship between us I cannot let
this time of such affliction pass without writing to tell you of it. My dear sister Emily’s husband died
last Saturday night after three days illness.
My mother was staying there at the time but Louisa and I were in Devonshire, where on Sunday we received a Telegraphic
Message to tell us of the sad event.
Louisa is with Emily and the funeral will be on Friday at Chichester.
Believe me, Yours very truly. Elizth M. Green’ [HMA June-July 1855 7/2/1-18]
1855 29/6 Henry Powell aged 48 years was buried
‘under the yew tree’ in the Chichester General Baptist Burial Ground located at
the side of Whyke
Lane to the South of the Hornet (on the east side
of Chichester). The date and district of
certificate is given as 27 June 1855 Finsbury No 9 and the date of death as 23
June 1855. [WSRO NC/GB1/2/3]
1855 27/12 Elizabeth
Green to John Barcham Green
My dear John Ashford Road
My mother desires me to thank you for the cheque which she
received this morning and to send you back the receipt which I have signed for
her. I was sorry to hear a few days ago that your little girl was not well, but
I trust she is now better and that the rest of your family are well. With the compliments of the season. Believe me.
Yours truly, Elizabeth
M. Green [HMA Dec 1855
7/2/21]
1856 7/11 Extract
from a letter written by John Philip Green to his mother Mary Green
“First as to my Maidstone
visit I arrived about 4 on Thursday afternoon and of course made my way
directly to King Street.
I thought both my
aunts looking very well particularly Louisa and in good
spirits. My grandmother is wonderfully
active and alive considering her age.
Her loss of sight made her careful and timid in moving about but now
that she has regained it there seems little difference in her from what I have
always known. The next morning I walked
over to Tovil to see Uncle Charles whom I thought
looking thin and anxious. They say that
the Canada
visit has had a very injurious effect on him.
He seems to have liked the place and would have stayed but the climate
was too changeable & severe. I do not fancy he will stay much longer where
he is & wish he may soon find a more comfortable settlement which I am sure
he deserves. He told me that one of the Cowans said to him that since he had been with them their
paper had improved 10 per cent which on a capital of 80 or £90.00 is a large
sum and it seems hard that Charles should not have had more benefit from the
services he rendered. I also called at Hayle Mill where I found John Green much
as usual. Mrs J.G. I did not see.”
1857 19/9 Letter
from Henry Green to his cousin John Barcham Green
Dear Cousin, Heathfield, Knutsford
I am naturally desirous of obtaining what interest I can on
behalf of my son, who is about, this next October, to commence the practice of
his profession as a Chancery barrister on Conveyance and equity draftsman. You
are I believe aware how successfully and honourably he has passed through his
studentship for the law, and therefore I make less apology for asking you, when
a proper opportunity offers, to mention his name to any of your
solicitor or attorney friends. His name will be found in the regular law lists
and his address, or chambers, No 3 Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s
Inn. I
have been making a change in my own engagements in having relinquished my
school this midsummer. My daughters
however are about to commence a school for young ladies in the same house and
as I am sure they will endeavour to desire support I trust they will obtain it. I have not been in your neighbourhood for
some time but have been glad to hear that the world is not unprosperous
with you. With kind regards, in which my
family write I remain yours very sincerely Henry Green.
[HMA 7/2/18 /29] [3 Stone Buildings is missing from 1861
census]
1858 5/2 Letter from Henry Green to JPG date from
postmark on envelope
My dear Sir
I am about to publish a jeu
d’esprit, the title of which I enclose. You will
perceive that it is without my name, - and therefore I mention it to you in
confidence. I am venturing to ask if
you will have it in your power to assist in the circulation and sale. If you could and would order a few copies
through me directly, the profit to myself would
be so much the more as I should save the booksellers deductions. But I do not desire any subscription
of subscribers. The work will be ready in about a fortnight.
With kind regards to yourself and Mrs Green.
Believe me, faithfully yours Henry Green
As no one in my family at home knows of my
intended publication if you write to me address me, without any name. Master of out Chancery, Mr
John Heywood,
170 Deansgate, Manchester. [HMA 7/2/34 Jan-Feb 1858]
1858 27/2 Letter from Henry Green to his cousin John Barcham Green
Dear Sir,
Heathfield Knutsford
I am sending you by this Post a copy of my
little book, the price of which is 3/6. Whatever you may think of the
letterpress you will I am sure consider the frontispiece, - the note me langere very spirited and clever. I hope however that you will like the book
itself and from conviction and not simply from friendship give it your
recommendation. I shall be obliged by
anything you can do to promote its sale as it was begun in the first instance
with a benevolent object in view, about which I have expended some money, and
if this jeu d’esprit
be successful I shall get repaid.
It will give me much pleasure to stay a day or
two with you when I visit Kent
– which I hope will be within no very distant period.
With kind regards to Mrs
Green and yourself
Believe me, yours very sincerely Henry Green
There has been a delay in the publication, and
the work did not come out before yesterday, so that you have it new from the
mint. [HMA 7/2/35 March 1858]
1859 20/4 Letter
from Henry Green to John Barcham Green his cousin
My dear
Sir, Heathfield Knutsford April
20 1859
I do not know what your
political bias may be at the present moment but I take the liberty of
recommending, if they need recommendation, the claims of Mr Charles Buxton to
your consideration as a candidate to represent Maidstone. I have very little personal acquaintance with
him, but as the son in law of Sir Henry Holland Bart he is often mentioned to
me and from his votes, speeches in parliament, and character regard him as one
every way qualified to take his place again in the House of Commons. Should you agree with me in these opinions I
shall be glad to hear that you have given him your vote and interest, and
should you differ from me, you will I am sure excuse my naming to you a
candidate whose character is worthy of his descent and connexions.
Will you make my kind regards to
Mrs Green, and believe me.
Yours
ever sincerely, Henry
Green. [HMA 7/2/49]
1859 2/5 Letter from Henry Green to J B Green
My dear Sir Knutsford May
2 1859
I
thank you very much for your attention in sending me a card of the close of the
poll for Maidstone. I congratulate you and
rejoice with you in the result for I feel confident you could not find amore
suitable man than Mr Charles Buxton for your representative. Besides public
grounds I am also glad of his return, because Mrs Buxton’s aunts, who are some
of our kindest and most intimate friends, were very desirous of it. He posseses talent, energy and
principle and these combined give the promise of a highly useful public life.
Your
wife and family I hope are well. My
daughters’ school is promising and in time I hope they will succeed. Rejoicing with you and all the liberal party in Maidstone. I remain,
Yours
very sincerely, Henry Green
You
must have had a great struggle to carry your two men, and neck and neck as they
are. [HMA Jane 1867
7/2/164]
1859 18/5 Letter
from Elizth M Green to J B Green Esq
My dear John Ashford Road May 18th
1859
We have several pupils now with
us who are wishing to see the process of paper making and as they are going to
have a holiday next Tuesday will you be so kind as to let them go over your
Mill on that day? If you give permission
and the weather will permit Louisa will be at Hayle Mill about 10 o’clock. Will you let me know how many of the young
ladies may go over the Mill?
With
kind regards believe me, Yours sincerely, Elizth M Green [HMA
7/2/50]
1859 5/7 Letter written by
John Philip Green to his father Henry on the death of his grandmother.
1859 2/7 Letter from Louisa Green to John Barcham
Green
My dear John Ashford Road Saturday July 2nd 1859
From my yesterday’s note you
will not be unprepared to hear that my dear Mother breathed her last to day
about 1 o’clock. Her illness has been very short and free from suffering and it
was a great comfort to her to had had Mrs Mardon and Mrs Powell with her some
days before her illness.
With kind regards. Believe me,
Yours sincerely, Louisa Green. [HMA
7/2/54]
1859 9/7 Letter
written by Henry Green to his cousin J B Green Esq
My dear Sir, Upper King St [Maidstone]
July 9 1859
I have
concluded to remain in Maidstone
until Tuesday morning and write a line or two to say that I shall be happy to
dine with you on Monday 3 o’clock
I think you said was to be the time. With
kind regards believe me
Yours very sincerely, Henry
Green [HMA 7/2/51]
1859 31/8 Letter written by Henry Green from
Heathfield, Knutsford to his cousin John Barcham
Green at Hayle Mill
My dear Sir
I had set out to preach in the neighbourhood of Whitehaven when your letter arrived and I
only returned late last night.
I wrote my uncle William announcing
my mother’s death and directed the letter to him at Mrs
Kent’s, Whitehall Terrace Gravesend but I have not as yet had any reply. My
letter has not been returned and I conclude therefore that it reached its
destination.
I cannot account for no answer being sent to me. With yourself
I should very much like to know how my uncle is. He may perhaps have been
offended that he was not invited to my mother’s funeral, but I had nothing to
do with making the arrangements, and therefore he has no reason to be offended
with me. Should you hear from him, or of
him, I will thank you to let me know.
Mrs Green and your family
are I hope all well. I enjoyed my trip
into Cumberland
and stayed with some old friends. I climbed one of the hills, and had a clear
view of the Isle of Man, the Mull of Gallow, and
Scotland beyond the Solway, 15 or 16 Cumberland peaks
and the whole sea south almost to Wales.
With kind regards believe me, Yours sincerely, Henry Green. [HMA 7/2/53]
1864 29/6 Letter written by Eliz (nee Green) Ellis to
John Barcham Green
My dear Cousin Rocky
Hill Terrace [Maidstone]
As you kindly offered to shew me over you Mill any day this
week Mr Ellis, Louisa and I hope to have the pleasure of calling at Hayle Mill
tomorrow (Thursday) morning about 11 o’clock unless the day should be wet.
With our united kind regards to Mrs Green and yourself.
I remain, Yours very
truly, Elizth
Ellis [HMA 7/2/131]
1865 15/1 Letter from Louisa Green 3 Linton Terrace to J Green Esq
6 Eversfield
Place
Dear John Friday
As it
seems to have set in for a wet evening we hope you will excuse our coming to you,
though we are reluctant to give up the pleasure of seeing you again. I hope you
will have a finer day for your journey tomorrow. With our kind regards to your
circle
Believe
me, Yours
truly, Louisa
Green.
[HMA 7/2/139A]
1865 7/2 Letter from Elizth Ellis to J
B Green Esq.
My dear Cousin 2
Rocky Hill Terrace
Thanks for your note of this morning and though you cannot yet speak of
much improvement in your health, I trust, ere long, to hear that you are
deriving benefit from the Hastings
air. I am sure Louisa will be much
pleased to see you, and now that I know your address I shall send it to her by
this post. She lives at 3 Linton
Terrace, Bohemia Road
and when you are able to walk as far as her house I shall think you must be
much better.
Some friends of ours from the Isle of Wight
who are now staying with us (Mr Pennock & his daughters) went over to Hayle
Mill yesterday and as they had never seen the process of Paper Making your
foreman took them over the Mill with which they were much pleased. Mr Pennock
who knows the Adamses of Chichester very well was glad to be introduced to your
wife as a daughter of Mr Crandall of whom he had frequently heard. Of course you know that Mrs C Ellis is in
Hasting (7 Pelham Place)
she went yesterday.
Hoping to hear of your restoration to health, and with kind regards
believe me
Yours very truly, Elizth Ellis. [HMA 7/2/139B]
1865
Letter written
by Louisa Green to J B Green
Dear John, 3
Linton Terrace Friday
As it seems to have set in for a wet evening we hope you will excuse
our coming to you though we are reluctant to give up the pleasure of seeing you
again. I hope you will have a finer day
for your journey tomorrow. With our kind regards to your circle
Believe me, Yours truly, Louisa Green.
1866 5/9 Heathfield, Knutsford
My dear sir
I conclude that you have received
the copy of Whitney’s Emblems for which you paid me, and I hope you are pleased
with it as a curious and artistic book.
I am sending you by this post a
copy of a prospectus, and after looking at it I shall be obliged if you will
let a bookseller orf repute in Maidstone have it with a request that he will
allow it to be seen by his customers.
The copies on hand are not abot
60 and I have no anxiety as to the sale, but I should like to
see th whole cleared off, before I engage in another work.
I hope
yourself, Mrs Green and family are well. We all write in kind regards.
Your
very sincerely, Henry Green. [HMA
7/2/160]
1866 8/10 Letter written by Eliz Ellis to John Barcham
Green
My
dear Cousin, 2 Rocky
Hill Terrace
Some months ago Mrs Charles Ellis requested me to
see Miss Bryant and ask her if she were likely to have a vacancy in her school
soon, as you were anxious to send one of your sons to her. She has called on me
to day to say she has (unexpectedly) a vacancy now therefore I
write to you at once as I know her numbers are so soon filled up. The reason Miss Bryant has not let Mrs Green
know of any vacancy in the School since she called there is that hearing
Herbert was at Miss Vannings Miss Bryant did not
think it right to interfere with any arrangement then made with another
lady. I am sorry that I cannot give a
good account of Mr Ellis, but for the last two days he has not been quite so
well. I hope Mrs Green has quite recovered and that you and your family are
well. With kind regards, believe me. Yours
very truly, Elizth M. Ellis
[HMA 7/21/61 October 1866]
1866
18/11 Letter from Elizth M Ellis to her cousin J B Green
Esq
My dear Cousin, Rocky
Hill Terrace Nov 18th 1866
I called on Miss Bryant yesterday and ascertained from Mrs Stevens
that they still have a vacancy in their school, and they will be happy to
receive your son at any time as I assured Mrs Stevens he is quite free from
ring worm. His I did very readily after your statement upon the subject.
Perhaps either Mrs Green or you will now communicate with Mrs Stevens as she
asked me when you were likely to send your son. With
kind regards to Mrs Green & yourself.
I remain, Yours very
truly, Elizth M Ellis. [HMA Nov 1866 Bundle A
7/2/162]
1867 19/2 Letter from Henry Green to JPG My dear Sir, Heathfield, Knutsford Feb 19 1867
For a certain literary purpose of mind I am wanting a ream of 4to
[Quarto] of large bank post extra thin and a ream 4to of of small bank post extra thin - but I do not
find in Manchester any which would suit me so well as the bank post of your
make, which bears ink so well. If the sheets be othewise perfect a little size
stain would be of no detriment for my purpose should it not be troublesome to
execute so small an order I shall be much obiged if you will forward me the
above by rail, form Euston Square London (North Western line) via Chelford .
I conclude you received from London
the copy of the Whitney Reprint for which you paid me, and I hope, though the
subject is old and odd and quaint you find it a satisfactory example of the
early emblem literature. I had had several applications for the work from America, and I
believe there are not above 40 copies now in the publishers’ hands. As you have doubtless observed the printing
and illustration of the work have cause considerable expense, but I believe I
shall not incur any lose.
I shall be glad to have a good account of your health and that of
your wife and family. We have had a very
heavy affliction in our family circle this winter, in the instanteneous death
by a railway carriage of our nephew Brandreth Long, a very promising young man
of 22 years of age.
My brother Charles yesterday began an engagement with the Wrigleys
of Bury, Lancashire, and I am hopeful it will
be a permanent one.
With kind regards, believe me,
Very sincerely yours, Henry Green. [HMA 1867 7/2/168]
1867
23/2 Letter from Henry Green to JBG
My dear Sir, Heathfield Knutsford
Feb 23rd 1867
I am much obliged to you for attending so promptly to my request.
Whether blue or cream wove is of no consequence but on trial with the pink I
find it will not suit my purpose so well as the others. I like best,
both as to size & thinness and colour, the paper like the half sheet
which I now return. I prefer it remaining of the full size, medium I think it
is, the edges should not be cut simply the sheet and with the
quarto size. It would be a considerable convenience to me to have both
the thick & thin quarto by the end of next week. I wish you all health
& in your new abode and remain
Very truly yours, Henry
Green
J Barcham Green Esq
You will understand that a little size stain, or default of that
kind will be no objection, but in all respects the sample I return enclosed
will suite my purpose. I wish both reams to be of the same size &
thickness, or thinness whichever you call it.
[HMA
1867 7/2/168]
1867 8/3 Letter from Henry Green to JBG
Heathfield,
Knutsford March 8th
1867
I am in full sympathy with you to the coughing - for the weather
has very wintry and I had to go from home for two days and have come back with
a bad cold.
Thank you for the touble you are taking, the paper of which I
received a sample today (Blenavon Iron Company Limited) will suit my purpose
very well and I will promise (in due time) to use it myself. Will you therfore
have the kindness as soon as you can to send me the two reams of 4to of which you speak with edges
uncut.
If it had suited your plans I should have been very glad to have
received a call from you on your recent journey
Your very sincerely. Henry
Green. [HMA
7/2/167]
1867 15/3 Letter from Henry Green to JBG
My dear Sir
The 2 reams of Medium Bank were delivered here yesterday and will
suit me exceedingly well for the purpose for which I need them – thank you for
letting me have them – for at the price I could get nothing at all equal.
I enclose a P O Order for the amount and will thank you to return
the bill with a receipt.
Today I had a letter from Bombay, in which my son tells me that in
a case in which he was counsel the trial had lasted three entire days on the
two first from ten in the morning to 8 in the evening, and on the third day to
finish the matter from 10 in the morning to ¼ past 10 at night, with an
interval of only 20 minutes. I think
benevolent people should get a 10 hours bill to protect the lawyers from over
work.
With kind regards to all your circle, I
remain my dear Sir,
Very sincerely yours, Henry
Green.
J B Green Esq, [HMA 7/2/167].
1867 30/12 Letter from Louisa Green to John Barcham
Green
My dear Cousin, Otham
Lodge.
We are all much obliged for your kind invitation for Wednesday,
but as the distance is so great & the nights so short we hope we may be
allowed to defer the pleasure of seeing you to a more favourable time of the
year. We hope to be able to call on Mrs Green soon. With our kind remembrances
to her and yourself & wishing you a happy new year believe me
Yours very sincerely, Louisa
Green. [HMA
7/2/179]
1868 30/1 Letter from Elizth M Ellis to
John Barcham Green
My dear Cousin, Rocky
Hill Terrace Maidstone
Will you allow my friend Mr Collingwood (Mr Power’s successor) to
go over your Mill with his friend Mrs Manley who is wishing to see the process
of paper making.
With kind regards believe me,
Yours very truly, Elizth
M Ellis. [HMA 7/2/181 Jan-March]
1871 21/2 Letter from Ann Mardon to Mary Green
My darling Sister Tunbridge
Wells Feb 21st 1871
I will not delay answering your
letter – it can but make us very sad, but I will try to imitate your own calm
resignation, and thank you for telling us in your own tender way how ill you
are. I have long feared it was of a
serious nature, but did not like to make minute inquiries, as I always feel
that you tell us all we ought to know. I sent your letter on to our sisters at Maidstone, and they have returned it, hoping as we do
that you are not in a state of great suffering.
We know that you will have every alleviation
that love and tender care can give you.
How dear you have always been to us I cannot attempt to tell you, now
the hallowing influences your perfect trust that all is right, and your patient
waiting has given to your beautiful letter – there is a sustaining [….] in all
you say. If without distress to you we
may hope to have you longer with us, I can but cling to that hope.
I had been wishing to reply to
your dear Emily’s letter, and to thank Mary for the papers she sent me, but
each day seemed filled up.
I am very glad you have to look
forward to seeing your dear ones from Bombay
before long, and hope with warmer weather you may feel a little better before
they come, and that all will be well.
Mrs Beeching told us lately that they had met
with a gentleman from Bombay,
a Mr Hall, who had spoken of Philip as a most respectable rising man, and that
he had a such interesting life, but your girls will
say they knew this before. I am afraid I can tell them nothing new. They must be completely occupied, and though
you will miss dear Annie and her family I can imagine the household rather too
large, and they will not be very far from you.
Your account of Alfred is very
comforting to his mother – he seems so very happy in his visits to Knutsford,
writes often, and is altogether satisfactory – he had spoken of your keeping
your room often and that you were not able to go to the private theatricals at
Grove House – we are almost surprised that he was able to take his part with so
much confidence.
It did not seem likely that Mr
Alfred Holt would never marry again – and it is well his choice of Fanny Long
is so well approved. It is no disrespect
to the memory of dear Catherine and I hope Louisa Long likes it. Alfred speaks of often being at Grove House,
and it speaks well for him that it is so.
Your dear Mother’s feebleness is much increased from Isabel’s account
and her life so lengthened out, must hang by a slender thread which a slight
thing may break. What a tender mother
she has been, and happy for her that painful things do not make a very vivid
impression. Mr Kenrick
is much losing his memory and interest in present things. Mrs K often speaks of you – knows you are
seriously ill – sends kind regards, says she is so sorry, but glad she has seen
you. She is so unvarying in her kindness
to us.
Emily joins me in dear love to
you. We shall be very glad to hear your
appetite returns and you are a little better.
Dear love also to your mother and Isabel. My own dear patient sister
goodbye – God be with you.
Yours affectionately, Ann Mardon
Mrs H Green
1871 19/3 Letter from Louisa M
Green to Mary wife of Rev. Henry Green
My
dear Mary, Rocky Hill Terrace, Maidstone. March 19th 1871
I have been wishing to write to
you ever since Ann Mardon sent us a letter she had had from you a few weeks
ago. I have waited hoping that I might
find a little undisturbed time in the preparations for removing which will take
place now in a week, but I find there is none, & as it must still be some
weeks before we are settled I will not longer delay writing. I will not dwell
more on your letter than to say that we are deeply grieved at the intelligence
it conveyed to us. We had felt anxious
for sometime my dear sister, but we did not think it was as serious as it
is. Your calm resignation to the
inevitable makes us feel that you are dearer than ever to us, and we earnestly
pray that you may have many blessings & comforts for some time, & that
you may be spared any very great suffering.
You will be glad to know that Elizth is certainly better. She is beginning to sleep better, & is
able to bear more fatigue than she could three months ago. We hope to find our new house pleasant &
comfortable. We expect to have many
advantages from living near London. Our best friends think we are taking the most
desirable course by leaving Maidstone. Our address will be 2 Enmore
Park, South Norwood, S.E. The house is about seven minutes walk from
the Norwood Junction & within a walk of the Crystal Palace.
We shall be very much pleased to see any of our dear Heathfield friends
if they can find time to come to us when they are visiting London.
We hope Annie & her family
will find at Southport a pleasant home. I
think you always liked it. We think of
your dear Mother with much tender love, and of you too my dearest. We hope to leave this on the 27th. Elizabeth & Kate join me in kind love to
all our dear friends, and with every good wish believe me
Yours affectionately, Louisa M Green
1871
5/4 Letter written Mary Green from her
sister-in-law Ann Mardon
Darling Sisiter T.Wells 5 April 1871
What a dear, kind Isabel you
have at Heathfield to send me such a nice letter this morning! Will you tell her I thank her very much. I had not
expected you to make the exertion to write to me yourself, tho your letters are
very precious, and we heard from Alfred that sometimes you had but one daughter
at home, so that I think the more of her kindness in sparing the time to
write. You may be sure how we were
longing for more accounts of you than Alfred could tell.
I hope when more settled warm
weather comes that you will feel it do you good, from Isabel’s report is not
the best – settled warm weather, which you like so much, and the coming to
England of your children before long, will I hope quite do you good. It must be
with extended pleasure that you are looking forward to seeing them. All will I hope be happy for you, and for
them as much as can be. More and more,
dear love, do I dwell upon your tender wisdom in every thing you do, and have
done, and that you spare your dear girls that they may have modest change and
refreshment. Dear Emily will I hope
return home having enjoyed her visit to Miss Yates and sees dear Annie
comfortably settled at Southport. I heard of Miss Yates being blown down in the
street some weeks ago, and taken up insensible, but she must have recovered.
I have not heard from Louisa and
Elizabeth since they left Maidstone, but hope they will like the change to Norwood. I am writing to
Louisa today. She has had an anxious
life, and I hope now that that is past this must depend on the continuance of
Elizabeth’s health and life, as her income is a life interest in Mr Ellis’s
business. We have some friends here whom
are disposed to be very kind and friendly, Mr and Mrs R C Jones, who have taken
a house for three years. He is a son of
your old Bolton friend Emily Darbishire, and his father’s family Henry and I
knew in the Potteries. Mrs Jones I knew as Louisa Fearn a little girl at
Hampstead. They live some distance from
us, so that I do not see them often.
Sister Emily and I are busy
people as we have had no servant for three months – We have managed very well,
but I doubt sometimes of we can always go on as we are not like young people.
Perhaps the home occupation has been some diversion to her from absorbing
thoughts about her daughter
- of whom we do not yet get improved reports.
I think you knew that Captain
Frank Rucking left his wife behind when he went out
to India she is with her
mother at Brighton, and has lately had a son –
it would be a month before the news reached the father.
Sister Emily is now a little
recovering her spirits, but she felt so unsettled after parting with dear Em that it seemed uncertain whether she would remain
here. The boys thought it best to make
no change, and we are feeling more settled.
We have had no servant for this last six weeks, and get on very well and
I am really better.
Louisa tells me that the air at
South Norwood is as fresh as at Otham and she thinks
they shall like it very much, and find it healthier than Maidstone.
Your dear mother is I suppose
much more feeble than when I saw her how wonderful her age is – but I have
heard from Alice Field today that her brother-in-law, Mr Langmead,
at 94 writes capital letter, and is interested in all the news. I agree with you, dearest Mary,
that, if we may choose such a long life is not to be desired.
We shall think of you very much,
and I must indulge myself in writing to you a little oftener if it will not
tire you. What true fortitude you all
show – your girls are worthy of the mother they have been blessed with. Emily’s dear love to all
with mine – my own dear sister.
Think of me as your affectionate
Ann Mardon
1872 25/5 Letter written by Elizth
M Ellis to John Barcham Green black edged
My dear Cousin, 2
Enmore Park, South Norwood S.E.
May 25th 1872
Our friend Mr Collingwood was
here yesterday when he was inquiring if I thought you could make a paper
similar in texture to the card which I enclose.
I offered to write and ask you
when he gave me the following particulars. Some Spanish friends of his have
lately been to see him, and they wish to find an English Papermaker who can
make and supply them with a strong, tough paper, that will bear bending
without cracking, (not made in layers like card board) and handmade. Their consumption would amount to some
thousands of pounds annually. These
friends went to see Mr Collingwood only the day before they left England, when
he described to them the paper you showed him when you took him over your Mill,
and could they have prolonged their stay in this Country he would have
endeavoured through me, to have procured for them an introduction to you. If you think it will be worth while to make
further enquiries respecting this paper and wish to communicate with Mr
Collingwood his address is 15 St Thomas’s Street, Borough, but he is now coming
here every other day to attend Louisa who is ill and I shall be happy to give
him any message from you.
With kind regards, believe me, Yours truly, Elizth
M Ellis
J B Green Esq. [HMA 7/2/227 Box 1870-74]
1872 24/7 Letter written by Wm Collingwood to John Barcham Green, 15
St Thomas Street Boro SE 24
July 1872 black edged
My dear Sir
I beg to
hand you samples of paper & copy of letter received from Barcelona. You can if you please correspond
in English as Senr Raventos
understands very well & is associated with Senrs
Ramerez y Cai I trust the correspondence may lead to
some good business – profitable to all – if you prefer corresponding thro me
pray do so – meantime believe me. Yours very truly Wm Collingwood.. [Ref: HMA 7/2/227 Box 1870-74]
[William Collingwood married Catherine Green in 1876]
To date no more family letters
were found in the Hayle Mill Archive – it is thought that personal letters were
no longer then stored at the Mill.
The two letters below came from Chris Dimont
in 2009.
Frank Green was his
great-grandfather. His youngest daughter Nora was his paternal grandmother and Nora married his
grandfather Charles Dimont, the orphaned son of a
clergyman. His grandpa later became Chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral. He
died in 1953. What was amazing for me
was that the two letters substantiated most of the research I had carried out
over the years and also produced a copy of the marriage certificate of John
Green and Ann Turner which no longer survived having been destroyed by enemy
action in WWII. Reading the letters it
was apparent that the
families did still keep in touch and the enquiries by Frank Green to his sister
Mary at the time he became Lord Mayor of London
presumably as he had to proof evidence of his descent.
