Description: | Collected and received letters and papers. Some regarding the American branch of the family. Comprises letters: to Henry Chance from his cousin Joshua Crane, 20th and 24th August 1817; to Henry Chance from W. Chance, 6th March 183[?]; to Henry Chance from Jonah S. Meles [?], 16th April 1835; to Henry Chance from Edward Chance, 6th February 1845; to H. Sargant from Ed Sargant, 3rd June 1845 (including a copy of a tombstone in Bromsgrove church yard); to Henry Chance from George Chance (his nephew), 1st September 1845; from Joseph G. Bonnie, 23rd August 1889; from Norman O[?], 24th February 1890; from W. F. Dadley, May 1890; to Mr Chance from Wade Chance, 6th August 1893; to James Frederick Chance from F. Chance (his cousin), 19th and 26th February 1895; from rev. John R. Burton, 7th May 1896; to H. M. Chance from Henry Martyn Chance, 27th May 1898; to W. Chance from Frances C Baldwyn Childe, 10th September 1898; to Fred from W. E. Chance, 29th July 1899 and 18th January 1904; from W. H. B. Bird, 30th May 1900; to James F. Chance from A. T. Butler, 21st December 1904-8th June 1906; to Alexander M. Chance from Bertha Chance Cassels, April 1905; to Sir Roger Chance from Eleseus Robert Clayton-Chance, 8th February 1906; to James Frederick Chance from Fred A. Holmer, 10th November, 10th and 22nd December 1908 (the former including a photograph of a panel of the Homer pew at Sedgley and the latter with a plan of Sedgley Parish Church), 15th October 1909, and 24th July 1912 (including a coat of arms); from F. H. Ridings, 10th May 1913; to James Frederick Chance from R. B. C. Sheridan, 4th June 1913; to Fred from W. Chance, 14th August 1914; to Sir Hugh and Lady Chance, from Gladys Chance Stokes, 27th December 1948; and to Sir Hugh Chance from: Catharine T. Herford, 5th May 1961 and 3rd January 1962; D. B. Chance, 14th August 1963; Patricia Edwards, 2nd January 1966; and Iris Carola Leslie, 30th May-15th October 1975. Includes: family trees and genealogy notes, some from parish registers, (including for the Dadley, Homer, Holmer, Butler, Lucas, Bartleet, and Chaunce family); handwritten notes by William Chance (1749-1828) about house insurance, 30th March 1810 and a debt to his daughter Charlotte, 14th June 1817; a letter to William Chance from A. Higgins, 21st January 1848 about and including a statement from a freehold, from 1834-1846; extract from a letter of R.L.C to H.C. about a family feud, 21st April 1837; a photograph of J. F. Chance at Trinity College, Cambridge c.1875; a list of people copies of work were presented to; press cuttings about Mr Thomas Henry Chance, May 1906, Seymour Godwin Chance, October 1954, Edwin M. Chance, 1954, and Miss Ada Chance; a typescript titled 'Chance's in America', 1964; and a pamphlet for 'The Sheldon Tapestries' at St. Leonard's Beoley, Redditch. Found in an envelope titled 'Papers removed from Sir Hugh Chance's book'. The items have pencilled numbers at the top. |