SD1020. R.W. Appleton to George Goodin Barrett (1792-1854)
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 4, 355 (in part).
Liverpool
8th Aug 1839
G. G. Barrett Esq.
My dear Sir
I yesterday had the pleasure of receiving your favor of the 6th Inst., and am much pleased to find your late Brother has bequeathed to you all his St Anns & one or two other Properties, in Jama which if not altogether paid for, I should think from the income he was deriving as Speaker, Judge & the Estate, are not much in debt—and the St Anns Pen is in my opinion worth more than any Sugar Property, besides being situated in a healthy & beautiful part of the Island—your resolution to visit the Island under the circumstances of having your two Sons there at that tender age requiring advice & also to look after the Properties is most judicious & requisite—self in almost every case being preferable to agency, however honorable, and believe me to renew our acquaintance by your embarking at L’pool after so many years absence will afford me much gratification—let me know a few days before you leave Leamington & I will meet you a few hundred yards from my house where the Railway station is–
My Brig Appleton is now nearly ready for Sea & I hope to get her away on Tuesday next– I have consider’d the alter’d situation of Jeannette & as the annuity left is very inadequate to give her an English education & pay Board &c, I only think it right for all of us, she should return by the Brig—and I am the more confirmed in this, by her stating the desire to go with Captn Evans—to her mother besides the Exors would not be justified, if ever so inclined, to exceed the sum left under the Will—with this impression on my mind by your concurrence—she will just get the proper neccessaries & be in readiness to take her departure at the above stated time– Out of the last a/c of your Brother I kept £40 o/a Jeannette, to pay, as I considered a years expenses—on the 1st April I paid 1 Qrs Board &c £9.15. & have now 2 Bills to settle, one for Board from 1st April to the 10th Inst. Shoes & Boots £14.18.3—the other 9 Mo’s Education to the 14th £3.12.6.—there will also be come clothes to be paid for & an allowance to the Captn taking her out[—]the Balance, I can pay to you as Exor when you visit us—the Girl has got on very well in her learning & now reads pretty well & writes and as her Mother no doubt would wish to take advantage of this good commencement, by sending her to a School, boarding her at home—I really think the plan proposed will be most desirable & ought to meet with the sanction of those interested in her welfare– I shall be good to find your ideas correspond with mine–
The Revd H. Lee, his Wife & her two Sisters dined & slept at my house last night, returning to Cheshire this morng. Mrs Lee & they had taken a House at New Brighton (just the opposite side the Water) for a short time & I believe leave there for High Lee on Tuesday next– We were all much pleased with our new Cousin & from appearance, I think everything tends to make the connexion desirable & suitable to each other– Hoping to hear from you in due course
I remain with kind regards
My dear Sir
Yours most sincerely
R W Appleton.
Address, on integral page: G. G. Barrett Esq / Milverton Lodge / Leamington.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Eton College Library.
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