Identity area
Reference code
JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/5/8/1-7
Title
Letters from the Vicar
Date(s)
- 1891-1893 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
7 letters
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Letters with no date of year, apparently 1891-3, beginning with a printed appeal for the "Elmstead Curate Fund" 1891. This was set up in 1890, because William Worcester Godden, aged 67 and Vicar for more than 17 years, is too ill to fulfil his duties, but too poor to retire, so has set up a fund to pay an assistant curate. It seems that Godden died in 1893, and there is a letter from his treasurer Henry Brydone, with accounts for the fund 1892-93.