Enclosed with document.133153.

Re Telegraph House.

Enclosed with document .133157.

BR's letter (document .133156, record 115106) is quoted in full in it.

The letter's purpose is to record the fact that BR signed his will at Coward, Chance's offices. (BR had wanted to replace Withers with Crompton to spare his widow the difficulty of dealing with Withers.)

Enclosed document is .133166.

Re inspecting the furniture at Telegraph House.

The letter has a secretarial annotation that it was answered by Dora Russell on 1929/10/16 and that BR is expected back from America at Christmas.

Re lease of Telegraph House.

Re Telegraph House's quarterly rent of £100.

"Before Bertie went to America he gave me a sealed envelope to keep and to post to you on the 4th December."

Re property taxes on their Cornish House, Carn Voel.

Enclosure is document .133184.

Enclosed with document .133183.

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

Enclosure missing.

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.

Enclosure is document .133189.

Sanger is ill.

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

Enclosed with document .133188.

BR states his investment preferences.

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

Enclosed document is .133169.

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

Enclosed are documents .133195, .133196.

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

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.

Re John Conrad's trust.

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

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

Edward Lloyd and Francis Meynell could be new trustees.

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

Documents .133213 and .133214 are enclosed.

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

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.

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

Enclosed with document .133217.

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

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."

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

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

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

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

Re Telegraph House.

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.

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

BR advises him to contact Crompton.

Re Telegraph House.

Re Telegraph House.

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

Re Telegraph House.

"... 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...."

Re Telegraph House.

Re BR's claim against Guardian Assurance Company.

Enclosed with document .1332388.

Re BR's claim against Guardian Assurance Company.

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

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

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

Re the children's legacies from Sanger.

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.

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

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."

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

Re Telegraph House's water supply.

Enclosure is document .133252.

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

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

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

Re moving Telegraph House's battery.