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Arthur Patrick Story - Letters from Aunt Florie. 1946

About APS inheriting Bingfield, Torquay

Bingfield

Lower Warburton Road

Torquay

August 13th 1946

Dearest Pat 

Just a few lines to go XXX with some & to Daisy. I want to thank you very much for your dear delightful letter. I can't tell you how pleased I am my very dear Godson that you and Daisy have decided to have this Bingfield. Now I shall struggle harder than ever to keep it, with many hopes that you & D may like to have it as  XXX home when you have had enough of Ireland and its climate & that you will spend many happy & comfortable years in it.

So glad you had that nice time for Patrick's speech day etc. You were good to poor old Aunt Edie taking her out for little walks & so on.  After you left I had a dictated letter saying how much she had enjoyed having the 3 of you & how kind & helpful you were, giving no trouble in the house. Poor old aunt, it is all very sad about her. One bright spot is that she & XXX Casses are still at Storyland, long may they remain.

You will be glad to hear that Ward is staying on with me after all, XXX till Oct. XXX & maybe indefinitely. It is Amelia (cook), who must be cleared out, I have given her notice today - a nuisance, but so is she! I now realise that she has caused a lot of the upsets! So glad you are enjoying seeing some of your old treasures.

I can well understand it. I have no idea where the registration forms of his firearms can be - would you think of writing to the Chief Constable Torquay? as you sent the 2/6d to him maybe he has the forms.

I had a flying visit from nephew nephew Nevile (Peter?) from Richmond this XXX week end, very pleasant but very short. He could only manage the last train Friday to the Sundau afternoon 2.50 train back. Fran Carew arrived yesterday for 2 weeks. Very well & bright after the first part of her holidays in Cornwall. Mrs Hoare is also back, she was so sorry to just miss meeting you. She had hoped to be home to make your acquaintance.

Best Love

Yours affect.

F.E. Story

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Bingfield

Lower Warburton Road

Torquay

October 11th 1946

My dear Pat

I am so sorry not to have been able to go through the plate yet & to make XXX list to send to you as promised, at present there are 2 or 3, all quite correct I am sure but rather muddling for you or anybody else I expect!

Now I hope soon to get the job done & then you will be able to study the list at your leisure & tell me if you would like me to send some of the things over to you or sell some whilst prices are so good.

Many things have kept me very busy & being thoroughly down in strength for a few weeks after an attack of 'flu or a relation of it! somewhat added to my difficulties in the daily works & bothers. Now I am up to my usual round & one gets on with everything more briskly & wastes less time! Household affairs have been awful. One evening (2 weeks ago tomorrow) Ward suddenly announced that he was "walking out" & walk out he did about 12 o'clock! Amelia the cook who was here when you were with me in the early summer , I had been obliged to part with 4 weeks ago. Her successor, as good a cook as Amelia if not even better, leaves tomorrow, quite impossible to keep her - now I've got an old woman coming in her place tomorrow afternoon & just hope she will do anyway for some weeks if not months. The Irish H.P.(?) maid who came in a few days after Ward's depature has been & is the bright spot. Such a nice woman & good at her job, Hannah O'Leary by name - she hails from S. Ireland (Killarney).  There I have had also to make new garden arrangements, poor old Clubb having decided to retire from full time work. Of course I am letting him remain in the cottage. Clubb wishes to work mornings only, I advertised for a man 3 days weekly, Frederick Home, aged 38 XXX & Clubb's choice. He began work last Monday & we are extremely pleased with him a very experienced gardener & such a quick & good worker, tall and strong. But oh! the wages - 18/- a day, he would not accept my 16/- offered and I should have been a fool to lose him & take the very inferior people who offered their services.

I am glad to say Mrs. Clubb is wonderfully better for the electrical treatment & is highly pleased in being able to move the arm round a bit, only a little way upwards as yet, also she can knit and sew again.  Treatment reduced now to once a week instead of 3 times.

Well now I must tell you that they've at last got my new will settled, signed it yesterday & sent it off to  W Marley the London solicitor this morning. Owing to the appalling new death duties when I arranged the various legacies & W. Marley studies them & my security list & all other details it was found to let the list go as it was, so all had to be studies again - now I think we have made the best of a bad job & I am greatly relieved that the business is settled. My great XXX is that owing to gov. robbery you & others will have less to put into your pockets than was my wish. You, Mary Helman & Mr Marley are Executors & I am so pleased that it is now settled you are to have this Bingfield & contents, with the exception of various things which I am asking you to hand over to others as gifts, some of them promised long ago. I am making out a list of "wishes" - these are not put down in the will, except in a clause asking you wo respect them as I know you will, but they are not legally binding, dear Pat. By my will, the house will be kept going for 3 months from the date of my departues, all expense paid by my estate - to give XXX for sorting, cllearing etc. Mary Freeman in charge, with you, & you just coming to work with her, when you can manage it, you wouild surely be too busy to be here all the time & Mary has been with me in the house so much, she knows about its contents fairly well. I only hope I shall be able to keep this home for myself now & for your Daisy to live in & enjoy presently, but I can't be at all sure of it. My expenses go mounting up & up far beyond my present income , wages indoor & out are awful, swallowing up a large share of it! Now I think I have told various business matters which I feel you would like to know. How much, I often wish it had been possible for you & D to come & share this home, but I do see & understand your reasons against it so thoroughly. I think you will now have the farm in your own hands, since Sep. 29th & I hope you are thoroughly pleased with it & don't find the work too hard. Can you get good help? We are enjoying some dry days this week, at last - cold but nice sun in the best part of the day, as is this one, it was bitter till the sun appeared near 12 - at 12.30 I came out to the hut & got quite baked nefore lunch, writing part of this to you & I am finishing it there now in early afternoon - it is so nice that Miss Mareshall has put my chair in shelter by the drawing room window & I am soon going down to it. Mrs Hoare is away this month in Northern Ireland, I expect her home about end of Oct: which will be nice. I miss her much. 

Many thanks to Daisy for her last letter. What storms you were having too in old Ireland, damaging the crops as everywhere, very sad. I do hope you are now having a share of our dry and bright weather. 

My 2 near Dublin friends have alas! not replied about Belinda's introduction - XXX possibly Mrs  Maude(?) is still away & Mrs Dalgety may be ill herself as she was when I last heard XXX old husband in bad health.

Mrs Jollie wrote to me for your address wanted to send to her lawyer & I gave it at once, so you'll probably have heard from him.

Best love to you & D - Nancy if at home

Ever your very loving aunt

F.E. Story.

How about any furniture XXX do you want cabinets or anything  XXX & XXX could send?

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