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Estate papers comprising of estate accounts, tenancy agreements, farms accounts, land titles and correspondence.
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Rental letterbook containing letters and copy replies to and from tenants, solicitors and land agents. Original letters have been pasted onto pages of the volume and the reply noted alongside. Contains details of individual tenancies and the signatures or marks of various tenants. Also notes decisions taken on various accounts and includes several watercolour maps of holdings on the estate. Indexed by surname at front of volume.
Original incoming and copy outgoing letters relating to Ernest H Browne's management of the Bellair Estate. Matters referred to include: annual updates on rental and accounts; grazing agreements; delayed payments of rents by tenants; request by Mulock that the yearly rental and account be issued bi-annually.
Tenants referenced include: W C Clibborn; Charles G Adamson; John Joyce; Mrs Finnamore; John Deehan.
Letter from Browne to Mulock: "You ask me if I find same difficulty on other estate, Yes, I most certainly do. You may remember the old saying 'The poor are ever with us'. I regret to state that the bad paying tenant is also always with the unfortunate Landlord... My experience is that once a tenant from whatever cause it may be gets hard up, he is always pulling the Devil by the tail and in spite of good times he never able to satisfy all his Creditors. I only wish I had every estate as well paid as your estate is". (11 January 1918).
