UID:
almahu_9949589435102882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 154 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781800107229
Series Statement:
The publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society ; volume XXXIV
Content:
This is a selection of the letters to Edmond Williamson, rector of Millbrook from 1740 until his death in 1775 and also rector of Lolworth in Cambridgeshire. Williamson was from a Bedfordshire family. He was educated at Westminster and Trinity College Cambridge. About 300 letters addressed to Edmond Williamson have survived. Of the 182 printed here, about half are in full, the remainder abbreviated. Most of the letters were from Edmond's brother Talbot, who lived in London, and whose property in Husborne Crawley Edmond looked after. Others were from their sister Christian who was married to a retired naval captain; a few from a cousin Edmond Horne; and one or two from other people. The letters tell of family life, house improvements and decoration, food, dress and fashion, marriage, bringing up children, books, estate management, enclosure, travel, highwaymen, poverty, and war.
Note:
Previously issued in print: Streatley, near Luton: The Society, 1954.
,
Includes index.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781800107229
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800107229/type/BOOK
