BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
115129

Enclosure is document .133184.

115130

Enclosed with document .133183.

Re settlement for the benefit of Kate Russell. The letter contains suggestions for investments.

115131

Enclosure missing.

115132

Dora prefers not to invest in India for Kate's trust; "... there may be a revolution and a repudiation by India during our life-time." She prefers to divide the money between cable and wireless (near their Cornish home, Carn Voel) and New Zealand, and nothing for railways in England because of increasing competition from road transport.

115133
115134

Enclosure is document .133189.

Sanger is ill.

115135

This letter annotates 13 stocks for further investment. Re settlement for the benefit of John Russell.

Enclosed with document .133188.

115136
115137

BR states his investment preferences.

He is sorry to hear of Sanger's illness and requests his address and whether he can be visited.

115138

Enclosed document is .133169.

115139

Enclosed document is .133193; a second copy is unnumbered. It appears that BR did not use them in court.

115140

Enclosed are documents .133195, .133196.

"Schedule and validation of trust fund as at 31st December 1929" for both Kate Russell and John Russell.

115141

BR will see Sanger as soon as the doctors allow. BR had to have clarified what Crompton meant by "the 20th proximo". BR would rather not act for himself in court this time.

115142

Re John Conrad's trust.

115143
115144
115145

Davies will employ the junior counsel, Hubert Parker, for BR's case at Midhurst about the alleged damaged telescope.

115146
115147
BR sends a cheque for the children's trust.
115148

Re John and Kate Russell's trusts: more suggestions for stock picks for their investments.

115149
115150
BR makes his stock picks for the children's trusts.
115151
Sanger wishes to be relieved from the trusteeship of the two settlements.
115152

Edward Lloyd and Francis Meynell could be new trustees.

115153
115154

Enclosures concern new investments in John and Kate Russell's trusts.

115155
BR encloses a cheque to make up the balance in the children's trusts.
115156

Documents .133213 and .133214 are enclosed.

Document .133214 details the particulars of John and Kate Russell's trust funds.

115157

Enclosed with document .133212.

Letter asks Lloyd to be the new trustee for the settlements made for John and Kate Russell.

Document .133215 is the signed original of this letter.

115158

BR has written to Francis Meynell asking him to contact Crompton.

115159
115160

Enclosed with document .133217.

Lloyd is willing to take on the position of trustee of John and Kate's settlements.

115161

BR encloses Dora's will (not present).

"She is not very well and in danger of a miscarriage, so that the doctor has forbidden her to attend to any business at all."

115162

Francis Meynell has contacted Crompton and is willing to become one of the new trustees.

115163
Crompton encloses deeds of appointment of the new trustees. There is a notation that the deeds were returned 4/2/30.
115164

"I have just heard by telephone that Sanger is not expected to live for more than a few days."

115165

Sanger left £500 to BR and £100 each to John and Kate.

115166
115167

Re Sanger: "It is curious how frequently expert exponents of the law leave puzzles in their wills."

115168

Re Telegraph House.

115169

BR encloses (not present) a letter from a German "who used to give me cigarettes when the warders were not looking." [Re Brixton Prison.]

See record 115170 for the German's name.

115170

The German, Mr. Ettlinger, wishes to be reinstated as a British subject.

115171
115172

BR advises him to contact Crompton.

115173
115174

Re Telegraph House.

115175

Re Telegraph House.

115176

Crompton has received BR's cheque for the quarter's rent of Telegraph House.

115177

Re Telegraph House.

115178

"... some gorse and heather caught fire the other day in a position that might have spread to the house, and I therefore had to call the Petersfield Fire Brigade...."

115179

Re Telegraph House.

115180

Re BR's claim against Guardian Assurance Company.

115181
115182
115183

Enclosed with document .1332388.

Re BR's claim against Guardian Assurance Company.

115184

The enclosed card is from Venton, Cooper & Co., assessors to the fire office, document .133240.

115185

Davies sends BR the payments for the legacies under Sanger's will.

115186

Davies asks for a rough idea of the value of the furniture at Telegraph House.

115187

Re the children's legacies from Sanger.

115188
Re the insurance value of furniture.
115189
Re investments for the children's trusts.
115190

Crompton received a demand note from Withers & Co. for quarter's rent due. There is a notation on the letter that the cheque was sent 30/9/30.

115191

Crompton has received BR's cheque for the quarter's rent due for Telegraph House.

115192

Re a letter Crompton sent to Dora on July 30th, 1930, "... she has asked me to say that she would be glad if you would arrange for a policy to be taken out for £3,000, to cover the furniture at Battine House and at Telegraph House, the bungalow and its equipment, also the contents of the two engine houses, one at Battine and the other at Telegraph House."

115193

Crompton encloses (not present) a proposal form for a policy at Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited.

115194

Re Telegraph House's water supply.

Enclosure is document .133252.

115195
Enclose with document .133251.
115196

On the possibilities of a general concordat with Frank Russell, with reference to India.

115197
Re water supply.
115198

BR is returning the form of proposal for a policy with Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited, and presents details about the buildings' "engine rooms".

115199
On investments for the children's trusts.
115200
115201

On the risk of a fire from Telegraph House's battery.

115202

Re moving Telegraph House's battery.

115203

The enclosed document is .133261.

On responsibility for the engine house.

115204

Re Telegraph House: the cottage water supply.

Enclosed with document .133260.

115205

Crompton originally enclosed both a letter from Wontner & Renwick, as well as his reply, but requested that Dora return the letter from Wontner & Renwick.

115206
Enclosed with document .133262.
115207
On enlarging the water supply.
115208
115209
115210

Re Telegraph House's water supply.

Enclosed with document .133266. Also enclosed is a list of insurance warranties, document .133267.

115211

Re Telegraph House.

Enclosed with document .133266.

115212

Dora sends a cheque for £200 to be invested in water stocks.

115213
115214

"... with regard to the investment of the £200 for your children, the stockbrokers have found it possible to buy a holding of the Colne Valley Water Company's preference stock, and to invest the balance in Metropolitan Water stock." She should reinvest the dividends for the children.

115215

Crompton received a letter from Withers regarding Telegraph House's water supply saying, "... we have now communicated with Lord Russell with regard to your letter of the 29th ultimo and we understand his Lordship is making arrangements for a separate water supply for the cottage."

115216
On the storage of petrol away from the (engine) house, whose fireplaces servants use in the winter.
115217

The enclosed document is .133276.

Re electrical installation at Telegraph House.

"This memorandum refers to the observations in the letters from the Tudor Accumulator Co. of October 15, Mr. Lummas of October 17, and Messers. Coward, Chance of October 29."

The enclosure is titled "Electrical Installation at Telegraph House" and is signed "Russell" [Frank Russell] and is dated 1 Nov. 1930; 3 pages. He says: "I have been engaged for over 30 years in the electrical industry...."

115218
BR has decided to have the battery renewed.
115219
115220

Davies encloses a letter (not present) received from Wontner and Renwick. There is a notation that the documents were returned 11/12/30.

115221

Re Battine House and the income tax inspector.

115222

BR confesses he is "liable to insult him [the income tax inspector] more than he likes."

115223
115224

Re Telegraph House. Crompton has received BR's cheque for £100 for the quarter's rent. A notation on the letter states the receipt was sent 12/1/31.

115225

Re Battine House—income tax assessment.

115226

"I have now received from Messers. Wontner & Renwick the certificate in respect of £120 5% preference stock (1922 Act) Colne Valley Water Company registered in your name."

115227
115228

Re subletting Telegraph House.