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Description: | Letters, mostly from Benjamin Richardson, Wordsley Flint Glassworks, to his brother, W.H. Richardson, 3 Dyer's Buildings, opposite Furnivals Inn, Holborn, London. Containing references to: trade; products; repairs and maintenance; labour problems with employees; the neighbouring firm of glass-makers, 'Webb'; etc. Several letters include small sketches of glassware. Details include: Letter dated 25th October 1839, copy invoice of fine glass sand shipped by Joseph Squires on board 'the Mary of Aberystwyth', to Gloucester, on account of Messrs Richardson of Wordsley Glass Works. Letter dated 11th November 1839, states that Michael Grazebrook's (a local business man) father-in-law 'Phillips' had died and that Grazebrook may 'keep on the old man's timber turning, cratemaking, sawing etc.' Letter dated 11th December 1839, tells of many of the workers being ill or dying of measles and 'fever'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Archives | Rights holder: | Dudley Archives | Temporal: | Jul 1839-Dec 1839 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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