Correspondence: Hunt papers

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Correspondence, May 1856-January 1860, relating: - to a deed of gift, 18 July 1856, for the restoration and preservation of Shakespeare's Birthplace made by John Shakespear, Esq., of Langley Priory, Ashby-de-la-Zouche, co. Leic. - to his bequest, 17 November 1856, of £2,500 for a Shakespeare Museum and of a yearly rent charge of £60 for a custodian - to a suit in Chancery thereupon The writers are: a) Charles Holte Bracebridge - announcing Mr. Shakespeare's intentions; London, 6 May [1856] (f.1) - urging recourse to law in support of the will; 23 March 1859 (f. 96) - on an appeal, 1 January [1860] (f.115) b) Charles F. Skirrow, solicitor to Mr. Shakespear - 1 Bedford Row, 13 May 1856 (f. 5) - on the Will, etc; 4 August, 13 September 1858 (ff. 61, 68) c) W.O. Hunt i) to C.F. Skirrow, sending estimates for the isolation and restoration of the Birthplace, for a Museum etc. and for a glass roof, with names of proposed Trustees; 14 June 1856 (f.7) - on the carrying out of the Will, etc; 6, 20 August, 15 October, 10 December 1858 (ff. 62, 64, 69, 73) ii) to J. Shakespear, on the purchase of property adjoining the Birthplace, etc; 4 August 1856 (f.13) - on E.M. Barry's report as to the condition and mode of restoring the Birthplace, etc; 22 July 1857 (f. 28) - on the progress of the work, and the White Lion property; 3 December, 23 December 1857, 12 January, 6 May 1858 (ff. 35, 45, 49, 52) iii) to the Earl of Warwick, asking for old timber from a house in process of demolition at Warwick; 12 February 1857 (f. 21) iv) to Henry Brown, solicitor, to the executors of the Will, 31 December 1858-September 1859 (ff. 77, 83, 85, 89, 91, 98, 105, 109) v) to C.H. Bracebridge in deprecation of an irritating letter written to the testator's nephew; 6 May 1859 (f. 102) vi) to Messrs. William and James, solicitors for the plaintiffs in Thomson v. Shakespear, 22 December 1859, 21 January 1860 (ff. 112, 119) d) John Shakespear to: i) C.F. Skirrow, on the estimates, as above (c, i) 19 June 1856 (f. 12) ii) W.O. Hunt, on the progress of the restoration, 18 March, 24 July 1857 (ff. 25, 31) - on the White Lion property adjoining the Birthplace; 27 November, 10, 28 December 1857, 10 May 1858 (ff 33, 43, 47, 56, 59) e) Thomas Thomson, M.D. Trustee of the Birthplace - to W.O. Hunt, respecting a draft of a letter to Lord Carlisle, 8 August 1856 (f. 14) - to Lord Carlisle announcing Mr. Shakespear's gift of £2,500 and asking his sanction, as co-Trustee, for the restoration of the Birthplace [August 1856]; draft in the hand of W.O. Hunt (f.15.) f) [George William Frederick Howard, Earl of] Carlisle, to Dr. Thomson, in answer to the preceding, acquiescing in his arrangements; V[ice]-R[egal] Lodge [Dublin] 27 August [1856] (f. 16) g) J[ohn] Payne Collier, as co-Trustee of the Birthplace, to Dr. Thomson, on the proposed restoration, Riverside, Maidenhead, 9 September, 17 October, 1856 (ff. 17, 19) h) [George Guy Greville, Earl of] Warwick, to W.O. Hunt, in answer to his of 12 February (above c,iii); Warwick Castle, 19 February 1857 (f. 24) i) Henry Brown (above, c, iv) to W.O. Hunt, stating the construction his clients placed on the Will, etc; and on the completion of an agreement by the late Mr. Shakespear for the purchase of a piece of land adjoining the Birthplace; Ashby de la Zouche, November 1858 - 4 May 1859 (ff. 71, 75, 81, 87, 92, 100, 102). j) S.M. Martindale, advising a consultation as to the effect of the Mortmain Acts on the bequests in the Will, Lincoln's Inn, 12 March 1859 (f. 94) k) Messrs. Williams James (above c, v) to Messrs. Hunt on the suit in Chancery, Thomson v. Shakespear, and the appeal, and, on the question of costs; 62 Lincoln's Inn Fields, 24 June 1859 - 30 January 1860 (ff. 107, 111, 114, 116, 118, 120, 121, 123, 124)