People featured: 1
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [90]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas’ father has come home after some time away. The travelling and the hot weather have made him fatigued and out of order. Thomas has no time to write more.

People featured: 2
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [141]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas has received a letter from their father whose ailment is improving. Thomas suggests his father is somewhat undecided or confused about his plans to travel home and then to London, but Thomas suspects will mean he has to call their sister Nancy sooner than he had planned (presumably to care for their father).

People featured: 2
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [30]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas had been expecting his Sister Stanley to visit and disappointed that she has written to delay. He hopes she understands why he is not able to visit her and hopes she will come soon.

People featured: 2
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [29]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas is glad to hear his sister and family are well; he wishes he could visit them soon but he is unable and hopes she would come as soon as she can. Their father is concerned about Thomas’ godfather’s unkindness and has not yet been reconciled to Sister Hampton.

People featured: 3
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [74]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas wants his sister to give the bearer of the letter an oral report of their health. Their father wants to keep Nancy at home with him and Thomas reports feeling shame at not helping his father more in his business.

People featured: 4
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [99]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas has been too busy with work to visit. Their sister Hampton’s husband, Mr Allen, is worse with a cough and a physician has said it is consumption. Mrs Allen senior is expected to die soon. Thomas hopes Hampton will be able to cope.

People featured: 3
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [133]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas did accompany their Sister Allen to Coleshill, though he was not sure she would make the journey. He has received a letter from their father reporting aching eyes and pain in the hips.

People featured: 3
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [125]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas pain in his side had not qute left on his return home from visiting his sister Stanley, but he hopes he will be recovered soon. Their brother Franc was unwell yesterday but is now better. He hopes the weather will be good enough for his sister to travel to see him soon.

People featured: 2
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [31]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas is concerned to hear that his Sister has difficulties with her eye and asks her to let her know how she is as soon as she can. He hopes he will see her soon.

People featured: 5
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [50]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas’ sister Hampton has returned from visiting sister Stanley and he is concerned by Hampton’s report that Sister Stanley is unwell following childbirth. His knee is improving but that and business is keeping him from visiting her. Their father has left some medicine for their younger sister, Nancy.

People featured: 4
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [57]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas hopes his new nephew (Franc) is well enough for his sister to leave him to visit her brother. The nurse has returned and sends her service and thanks to Sister Stanley.

People featured: 2
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [41]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas congratulates his sister on her recent safe delivery and good health. Though he knows it may be ‘tedious’ to her, he also reports on the financial matters concerning her husband and father, and expresses some frustration at his father’s refusal to let him resolve the matter.

People featured: 3
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [119]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas asks his sister Stanley to purchase materials while she is in London, so that Hampton may make a second mourning outfit. He has parted with his brother-in-law ‘very well’ and on good terms. Their father is better.

People featured: 4
Collection: Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
Item Number: D231 M/B/8 [52]
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office
Summary: Thomas is still prevented from visiting sister Stanley by work but hopes to come soon. He is worried about his sister as he has not heard from her for a long time and tells himself she is well. Hampton is too busy to write because their maid has gone to see her poorly mother and Hampton will not take on another servant.