Description | 1) Letter from Reverend Jourdain to M.J. Ellison, the Duke’s ‘very faithful servant’, 19 Apr 19 1875. Jourdain proposes the building of new school buildings, explaining how the buildings would be screened from view of Derwent Hall by trees and river bank behind it and suggests planting of additional trees to further block view.
2) Letter from M. J. Ellison to the Duke of Norfolk, 4 May 1875 regarding application to Duke for land after owner of proposed land plot refuses to exchange/sell and concerning enlargement of school ‘required for about 50 additional children’. Proposes new school on site of vicarage or croft ‘there being no land available for the enlargement of the present one without encroaching upon the hall grounds’. |