Letters, References and Notes (1821-1830) relating to James Caldwell of Linley Wood and his daughter Anne Marsh

Letters, References and Notes (1820-1829)
Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh Caldwell)

The following is a listing of letters, references and general notes, from 1821-1830, relating to James Caldwell, his daughter Anne Marsh (nee Caldwell) and her husband Arthur Marsh . For notes relating to other years please go to Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874).

1820

Note of payment for Wood & Caldwell to Miss Hannah Stamford from 1792 -1820 £6,962:16:3

20 July 1821

Memorandum regarding Miss Hannah Stamford. Reads as follows:

Memorandum 20th July 1821

Then received from the written named Enoch Wood, the Elder, the sum of Three Thousand One Hundred Pounds Eleven Shillings and six pence being the principle money and all interest due on the bond bearing the date the sixth day of December 1792 mentioned and referred to in the written indenture (except the sum of Seventy five pounds half a years interest remaining to be settled on reference to Josiah Wedgwood Esquire.

26 December 1821

Letter from Miss Hannah Stamford to Enoch Wood regarding a dispute over the sum paid by Wood & Caldwell to Miss Stamford.

13 February 1822

Letter from Miss Hannah Stamford to Enoch Wood regarding a dispute over the sum paid by Wood & Caldwell to Miss Stamford.

22 February 1822

Letter from Miss Hannah Stamford to Enoch Wood regarding a dispute over the sum paid by Wood & Caldwell to Miss Stamford.

20 March 1822

Note regarding Hannah Stamford and Enoch Wood .

20 June 1822. The following is a letter, presumably printed in a large number and sent out to all the members of the Library. The outside of the letter is addressed to James Caldwell, Linley Wood. The letter reads as follows:

Newcastle, June 20, 1822.

The Annual Meeting of the Newcastle and Pottery Library, will be held at the Library on Friday, the 28th instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, to receive the Nomination of the Committee, and for the general purpose of the Society.

Agreeable to Rule 12, I transmit you a List of the Members, which List must be returned to me one day previous to the Annual meeting, under forfeiture of One Shilling, with the Letter I prefixed to the Names of those Eleven Members, whom you may deem most eligible to serve on the Committee for the ensuing year.

I beg to inform you that agreeable to arrangements entered into with Mr Bull, the time of the Library being open will be altered, in order to suit the convenience of Members, to commence on Saturday the 29th, viz. From Lady-day to Michaelmas, from 10 o'Clock in the Morning, to 6 in the Afternoon. From Michaelmas to Lady-day, from 10 o'Clock to 4 in the Afternoon.

I am,

Your most obedient Servant,

James Smith, Treasurer.

2 June 1824. James Caldwell, the chairman of the Trent & Mersey Canal company, wrote to Thomas Telford expressing the committees great satisfaction regarding canal matters. See page 108 of "The Trent & Mersey Canal".

10 September 1824. The Marsh bank crashed. Arthur Marsh's half brother William Marsh died the same day, presumably by his own hand.

11 October 1824

Letter from Frances Allen (Fanny, 1781-1875) to Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell nee Caldwell). Addressed to Mrs Arthur Marsh, 7 Whitehall Place, London. The letter reads as follows:

Cresselly
October 11th 1824
My dear Anne
I have been very uneasy about you, ever since, I have seen in the papers, the strange conduct of Mr Fauntleroy, and I have been a little relieved this morning by a letter from Staffordshire saying that your husband had nothing to do with the bank. Thank heaven for him! and though future expectation is cut off from you, this may not, and I trust will not, be wanted by you, and I am convinced that you have too much good . . . , and are too good to be cast down by disappointments, and lighter misfortunes, and the heavier ones, you have yet escaped, for which I rejoice most sincerely. I had not courage to write to you till I knew the extent of your misfortune, and I was much relieved today of hearing it was less than I had sometimes feared. I have also been very uneasy about Eliza from seeing in the papers a fortnight ago the death of Mr W Roscoe near Liverpool. I was sometimes tempted to practice a ball and write to ask her if this were living. Our letters from Maer which cheered us this morning satisfied my mind also, on this particular, and our intercourse by writing has been left off, so long it makes it difficult to begin again, my interest in her general welfare is as there as . . . but the every day interest of amusement and pleasure is of course lost when correspondence ceases. A gay and charming letter from Bessy which cheered us this morning, was contrasted sadly by John's envelope from Gloucester, saying how little hope he had, for his poor Gertrude and that she had lost all, for her ultimate recovery. Perhaps you may not have heard that they were stopped at Gloucester, in their ineffectual effort to try a warmer climate for the winter. They are now established there for the winter, with their two eldest boys, and they have given their two youngest to us in charge here. This was arranged when they meant to try Pescia or Hieres! and they have not yet formed any plan of having them up. Mrs Allen has been too unwell to like to have them yet, but if she should get better which I earnestly hope, I trust and think it likely they will send for them. This place is very melancholy particularly under its present circumstances, and I should be glad to be spared the winter here - all past events, and persons gone, press more constantly on the mind here, than anywhere else naturally and there is nothing to distract the mind.
They come in dim succession led.
The cold, the absent, and the dead.
So that I feel it a great effort to retain a moderate degree of spirits. John is under my care and is a very charming child. He has not yet left off his petticoats. We are hard at learning something or other for nearly two hours every day, and he has made very good progress in French. Little Isabelle is a nice little thing also, and she is now immediately under Emma's care. We lead the most retired life possible and have been no where, except to Stockpole (Lord Cawdon's) where we spent the whole of the week between the Dowager's and Lord Cawdon's. I enjoyed the visit there, very much, a large house with all its appurtenances, and well lighted, is the greatest luxury and Lord Cawdor is he most delightful family man I ever saw, the most sensible and tenderest father. Lady Cawdor is a very agreeable person and makes her house the pleasantest great house I was ever in. Her father Lord Bath and a brother and sister of hers was there also, and the two former were heavy Gentry. What a lucky circumstance for poor John that Jane is now staying at Gloucester with Allen she is of untold comfort to John, and Miss Allen who loves her she says better than either of her sisters, from whom she has been separated a long time, poor thing! She feels it a hard thing to relinquish the world. How glad I am that Marianne Darwin is going to be married so much according to her heart and inclination! I wish I could chance a husband for Caroline, it could make more than half a dozen happy. The M . . . have cooked up a very pretty scheme for Italy next year. I trust nothing will come estwith to destroy it and Bessy will remain with Jessie in the mean while. Sarah I hear is going to . . . Hay House - if Lord Crewe will let it. This upon the whole seems a very fair scheme for her, though I should still have preferred a London one. I wish we had been to try a house near London with her in conjunction this winter, but one must be contented with when one is known, particularly if one might be usefully employed. Mama desires her kindest love to you, and joins me in affectionate remembrances to Mr Marsh.

Believe me dear Anne

Yours most Affectionately

F Allen

If it is irksome to write do not answer this letter. I wished to tell you the warm and constant interest I take in your concerns and you may perhaps feel more inclined to write some time hence. Is Pelsy Smith gone to Paris?

Addressed to Mrs Arthur Marsh, 7 Whitehall Place, London. Postmarked 18 (or 11?) Oct 1824.

James Caldwell to Henry Gibson Dowson, 7 April 1825.
This letter contains thanks for 2 volumes of sermons "by his late friend". The recipient, H G Dowson, is the husband of Pendlebury Houghton's daughter Mary and executor of his will. Mary spent time with the Caldwells as a girl and the two families seem to have a connection. The letter is addressed to Dowson in Geldeston, nr Beecles. This letter is on the website www.coghlan.co.uk

Linley Wood April 7 1825
My dear Sir [HG Dowson Esq]
I beg of you to accept my sincere acknowledgements for the additional mark of your kind remembrance in sending me the two volumes of Sermons by my late excellent friend, and which arrived here a day or two ago. The perusal of them will I am persuaded afford me the same pleasure and satisfaction which I have so repeatedly derived from his former works: and be assured that the Book will ever be highly valued by me, not only on account of the eminent talents and virtues of the author but the kind attention manifested by its donation.
It will give Mrs Caldwell and myself great pleasure to hear a good account of Mrs H Dowson, in whose happiness and welfare we shall ever take a deep and sincere interest.
Be kind enough to present our united and best regards to her.
Believe me,
My dear Sir
very faithfully yours
James Caldwell

8 September 1828

Letter from James Caldwell to Josiah Wedgwood regarding the marriage trust of Arthur and Anne Marsh. James apologises to Josiah and confirms that should he suffer any costs then James will meet these costs.

20 March 1829. Thomas Telford made a report to James Caldwell, the chairman of the Trent & Mersey Canal company, regarding canal construction work on the Hall Green branch. See page 69 of "The Trent & Mersey Canal".

7 April 1829. Thomas Telford wrote to James Caldwell, the chairman of the Trent & Mersey Canal company, regarding canal construction work. See page 110 of "The Trent & Mersey Canal".

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