| Description | Recipients include: John Parr; John Galton; Mary Sowden; James Farmer; 'Cousin Baskerville'; Mr Barclay; Nicholas Atkinson; Robert Plumsted; James Johnson; Edith Galton; Elizabeth Galton; Mr Gross; Mr Strickland; Messrs Freame & Barclay; George Pengree; Mr Sayer; Samuel Beardsley; John Spilsbury; Joseph Manesty; Hannah Galton; Mr Honeyborne; Joseph Ward of South Carolina; Committee [of the Royal African Company]; Earl Daniel of Montserrat; John Davis Molineux; Surveyor General of his Majestys Ordnance; Capt Tublay James; John Kidd; Robert Lawrie; Kender Mason; William Taylor; Geo[ffrey] Kitson; Mr Oughston; Peter Farmer; Thomas Hurd; Capel Hanbury. Many of these recipients are clients of Farmer & Galton, and the correspondence written to them includes details about their orders of guns. Some recipients are involved in the administration of affairs following the bankruptcy of James Farmer. Letters to James Farmer are mainly concerned with his bankruptcy and losses from the Lisbon earthquake in 1755, the sole administration of the firm by Samuel Galton and the transfer of Farmer's properties in Birmingham and Bircott. Some contain information about the financial affairs of Susannah Abrahams as they relate to those of James Farmer. However, this correspondence also contains substantial details about contracts with merchants and other clients. Similar topics are discussed in Galton's letters to John Galton, John Parr and James Johnson.
Letters to John Galton also refer to the debts of Prankard & Galton and the dissolution of that partnership. Letters to Galton's sisters relate to land in Somerset settled on them by their mother's will. The volume also contains some loose papers stored at various points in the volume. These comprise: two letters from Samuel Galton to John Galton dated 5 June 1755 and Sept 1756, and an undated letter written to Messrs Farmer & Galton by a member of Samuel Galton's family. Blank paper at the bottom of the letter has been re-used by Samuel Galton to draft a letter to Samuel Montaigut dated 6 July 1756. |