EDWARDIAN DERBYSHIRE. AN EXTENSIVE GROUP OF OFTEN VOLUMINOU...

Estimate

£200 - £300

EDWARDIAN DERBYSHIRE. AN EXTENSIVE GROUP OF OFTEN VOLUMINOUS PERSONAL AND BUSINESS LETTERS TO COLONEL REGINALD WALKELINE CHANDOS-POLE (1853-1930) OF RADBOURNE HALL AND PARK HALL, DERBYSHIRE, 1908-10 many with envelope, comprising endearing letters from his wife, kinsmen and aristocratic millieu, the recipient often addressed by his nicknames 'My darling fat boy, 'Wakey' or 'Chandy' or formally as 'Squire' or 'Colonel' ,also telegrams and invitations, Derby and other tradesmen's accounts including the Midland Hotel, a poulterer, chemists, nurserymen, land agents, auctioneers and solicitors on estate business, pocket diary (1907) Radbourne Estate pay sheet of staff wages 1908, Particulars of Produce from Radbourne Hall garden 1907, list of tenants on the Park Hall estate, income account of the estate of the 5th Earl of Harrington deceased 1907, the stubs of ten chequebooks and lease of Radbourne Hall, May 1885, in black japanned deed box, the fall front inscribed Estate & Property, 50cm l (approximately 230)

Largely dating from a single year, 1908 the present lot affords a fascinating insight into the life of an Edwardian landowner and sportsman.

Colonel Chandos-Pole was born at Radbourne Hall, the eldest child of Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole and his wife Anna Caroline Chandos-Pole, nee Stanhope. He married secondly, Inez Blanche Arent (the writer of many of the letters). He was the subject of a 'Spy' (Sir Leslie Matthew Ward) caricature in Vanity Fair in 1888.