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BRIXTON HILL ACADEMY, [1860-61]. A country boy's education in London. "It is very kind of Mr and Mrs Hine taking us pupils again, and if he had not I should have been a dunce all my lifetime."
A small archive of correspondence written by William Wood, aged 8 to 10 years old, boarding at Jardine's Academy for Young Gentlemen, Brixton Hill, London. Comprising five letters to his parents back home at Hall Farm, Doveridge, Derbyshire, and one letter to his step-grandfather [schoolmaster at the academy], Mr Joseph Hine. [1860-61]
A letter to parents, 17 August 1860. "I hope father has finished his hay. Has father sold his fat sheep? And if he has I hope he has got an excellent price for them...It is very kind of Mr and Mrs Hine taking us pupils again, and if he had not I should have been a dunce all my lifetime. Mr Hine says cousin Tommy will be a clever boy, which is certainly saying a great deal...Mr Hine was so kind to take us a walk one day to London, and Mr Hine took us into Holywell Street [known as 'Booksellers' Row'], which has a great many bookseller's shops...we went over Waterloo Bridge, and my hat flew right off into the Thames...and in a few minutes a boy fetched it up some steps, which was the waterman's son, and Mr Hine gave him fivepence."
A letter to parents, 20 November 1860. "I have the utmost pleasure in composing my monthly letter to you, which I hope will please all friends...Mr Hine is engaged in reading to us a very interesting book, 'The History of Volcanoes or Burning Mountains', which I think is one of the most wonderful things in all the world...Mr Hine yesterday took us a walk to Tooting Common, about 6 or 7 miles, and we returned home quite happy."
A letter to parents, 20 Feb 1861. "I was very glad to hear that you and father enjoyed yourselves at the ball. I suppose that there would be all the tenants of Doveridge there...I should suppose that the cows will be calving and that the sheep will be lambing and that you will be very busy...Mr Hine said that about forty convicts were flogged at Chatham for meeting till the skin came off their backs." [Postmarked London with Penny Red stamp]
A letter to parents, 28 May 1861. "The day that we went to Greenwich it was very fine. Mr Riddle, one of Mr Hine's friends, headmaster of Greenwich Hospital, was so kind as to let us see 800 boys at dinner, which was a very great sight...I am reading a very interesting book, 'Robinson Crusoe'...Last Sunday Mr Joseph Hine, Johnny White, Rupert Walker, and I went to the Crystal Palace, and that some of it is blown down, and we went up to the tower, which is 455 steps high, and we went all about the grounds." [Postmarked London with Penny Red stamp]
A letter to parents, undated, [c. 1860]. "Mr and Mrs Hine thank you very kindly for that good cheese and ham you was so kind as to send us and are glad that you have sold it so well."
A letter to Joseph Hine, March, 1860. "Lady Waterpark, Mrs Oakover and Miss Cavendish came over to see mother and she asked me which I liked best, Brixton or Doveridge. I said Brixton because I liked Mr Hine & he was so kind to me and he gave me so many books....Lord Waterpark said I was a very good boy in church on Ash Wednesday. I read my prayers so well. Please send when you want a cheese, we have only six left, so mother thought we must begin of cheese making again."
Together with a letter written by William's grandmother, Mrs Hine [wife of schoolmaster Joseph Hine], 3 April 1861, conveying her sympathies on the death of one of William's siblings, "It is God's will that it should be so, and he knows best...a little Angel in heaven."
The whole housed in a Uttoxeter chemist's prescription envelope for Mr. W. Wood.
❧ Joseph Hine was born in Cumberland and knew William Wordsworth. He notably edited Selections from the Poetry of William Wordsworth: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons, [1831], and published One Hundred Original Tales for Children, [1846]. He was a schoolmaster at Plymouth, and afterwards at Brixton where he knew Leigh Hunt
A small archive of correspondence written by William Wood, aged 8 to 10 years old, boarding at Jardine's Academy for Young Gentlemen, Brixton Hill, London. Comprising five letters to his parents back home at Hall Farm, Doveridge, Derbyshire, and one letter to his step-grandfather [schoolmaster at the academy], Mr Joseph Hine. [1860-61]
A letter to parents, 17 August 1860. "I hope father has finished his hay. Has father sold his fat sheep? And if he has I hope he has got an excellent price for them...It is very kind of Mr and Mrs Hine taking us pupils again, and if he had not I should have been a dunce all my lifetime. Mr Hine says cousin Tommy will be a clever boy, which is certainly saying a great deal...Mr Hine was so kind to take us a walk one day to London, and Mr Hine took us into Holywell Street [known as 'Booksellers' Row'], which has a great many bookseller's shops...we went over Waterloo Bridge, and my hat flew right off into the Thames...and in a few minutes a boy fetched it up some steps, which was the waterman's son, and Mr Hine gave him fivepence."
A letter to parents, 20 November 1860. "I have the utmost pleasure in composing my monthly letter to you, which I hope will please all friends...Mr Hine is engaged in reading to us a very interesting book, 'The History of Volcanoes or Burning Mountains', which I think is one of the most wonderful things in all the world...Mr Hine yesterday took us a walk to Tooting Common, about 6 or 7 miles, and we returned home quite happy."
A letter to parents, 20 Feb 1861. "I was very glad to hear that you and father enjoyed yourselves at the ball. I suppose that there would be all the tenants of Doveridge there...I should suppose that the cows will be calving and that the sheep will be lambing and that you will be very busy...Mr Hine said that about forty convicts were flogged at Chatham for meeting till the skin came off their backs." [Postmarked London with Penny Red stamp]
A letter to parents, 28 May 1861. "The day that we went to Greenwich it was very fine. Mr Riddle, one of Mr Hine's friends, headmaster of Greenwich Hospital, was so kind as to let us see 800 boys at dinner, which was a very great sight...I am reading a very interesting book, 'Robinson Crusoe'...Last Sunday Mr Joseph Hine, Johnny White, Rupert Walker, and I went to the Crystal Palace, and that some of it is blown down, and we went up to the tower, which is 455 steps high, and we went all about the grounds." [Postmarked London with Penny Red stamp]
A letter to parents, undated, [c. 1860]. "Mr and Mrs Hine thank you very kindly for that good cheese and ham you was so kind as to send us and are glad that you have sold it so well."
A letter to Joseph Hine, March, 1860. "Lady Waterpark, Mrs Oakover and Miss Cavendish came over to see mother and she asked me which I liked best, Brixton or Doveridge. I said Brixton because I liked Mr Hine & he was so kind to me and he gave me so many books....Lord Waterpark said I was a very good boy in church on Ash Wednesday. I read my prayers so well. Please send when you want a cheese, we have only six left, so mother thought we must begin of cheese making again."
Together with a letter written by William's grandmother, Mrs Hine [wife of schoolmaster Joseph Hine], 3 April 1861, conveying her sympathies on the death of one of William's siblings, "It is God's will that it should be so, and he knows best...a little Angel in heaven."
The whole housed in a Uttoxeter chemist's prescription envelope for Mr. W. Wood.
❧ Joseph Hine was born in Cumberland and knew William Wordsworth. He notably edited Selections from the Poetry of William Wordsworth: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons, [1831], and published One Hundred Original Tales for Children, [1846]. He was a schoolmaster at Plymouth, and afterwards at Brixton where he knew Leigh Hunt
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BRIXTON HILL ACADEMY, [1860-61]. A country boy's education in London. "It is very kind of Mr and Mrs Hine taking us pupils again, and if he had not I should have been a dunce all my lifetime."
A small archive of correspondence written by William Wood, aged 8 to 10 years old, boarding at Jardine's Academy for Young Gentlemen, Brixton Hill, London. Comprising five letters to his parents back home at Hall Farm, Doveridge, Derbyshire, and one letter to his step-grandfather [schoolmaster at the academy], Mr Joseph Hine. [1860-61]
A letter to parents, 17 August 1860. "I hope father has finished his hay. Has father sold his fat sheep? And if he has I hope he has got an excellent price for them...It is very kind of Mr and Mrs Hine taking us pupils again, and if he had not I should have been a dunce all my lifetime. Mr Hine says cousin Tommy will be a clever boy, which is certainly saying a great deal...Mr Hine was so kind to take us a walk one day to London, and Mr Hine took us into Holywell Street [known as 'Booksellers' Row'], which has a great many bookseller's shops...we went over Waterloo Bridge, and my hat flew right off into the Thames...and in a few minutes a boy fetched it up some steps, which was the waterman's son, and Mr Hine gave him fivepence."
A letter to parents, 20 November 1860. "I have the utmost pleasure in composing my monthly letter to you, which I hope will please all friends...Mr Hine is engaged in reading to us a very interesting book, 'The History of Volcanoes or Burning Mountains', which I think is one of the most wonderful things in all the world...Mr Hine yesterday took us a walk to Tooting Common, about 6 or 7 miles, and we returned home quite happy."
A letter to parents, 20 Feb 1861. "I was very glad to hear that you and father enjoyed yourselves at the ball. I suppose that there would be all the tenants of Doveridge there...I should suppose that the cows will be calving and that the sheep will be lambing and that you will be very busy...Mr Hine said that about forty convicts were flogged at Chatham for meeting till the skin came off their backs." [Postmarked London with Penny Red stamp]
A letter to parents, 28 May 1861. "The day that we went to Greenwich it was very fine. Mr Riddle, one of Mr Hine's friends, headmaster of Greenwich Hospital, was so kind as to let us see 800 boys at dinner, which was a very great sight...I am reading a very interesting book, 'Robinson Crusoe'...Last Sunday Mr Joseph Hine, Johnny White, Rupert Walker, and I went to the Crystal Palace, and that some of it is blown down, and we went up to the tower, which is 455 steps high, and we went all about the grounds." [Postmarked London with Penny Red stamp]
A letter to parents, undated, [c. 1860]. "Mr and Mrs Hine thank you very kindly for that good cheese and ham you was so kind as to send us and are glad that you have sold it so well."
A letter to Joseph Hine, March, 1860. "Lady Waterpark, Mrs Oakover and Miss Cavendish came over to see mother and she asked me which I liked best, Brixton or Doveridge. I said Brixton because I liked Mr Hine & he was so kind to me and he gave me so many books....Lord Waterpark said I was a very good boy in church on Ash Wednesday. I read my prayers so well. Please send when you want a cheese, we have only six left, so mother thought we must begin of cheese making again."
Together with a letter written by William's grandmother, Mrs Hine [wife of schoolmaster Joseph Hine], 3 April 1861, conveying her sympathies on the death of one of William's siblings, "It is God's will that it should be so, and he knows best...a little Angel in heaven."
The whole housed in a Uttoxeter chemist's prescription envelope for Mr. W. Wood.
❧ Joseph Hine was born in Cumberland and knew William Wordsworth. He notably edited Selections from the Poetry of William Wordsworth: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons, [1831], and published One Hundred Original Tales for Children, [1846]. He was a schoolmaster at Plymouth, and afterwards at Brixton where he knew Leigh Hunt
A small archive of correspondence written by William Wood, aged 8 to 10 years old, boarding at Jardine's Academy for Young Gentlemen, Brixton Hill, London. Comprising five letters to his parents back home at Hall Farm, Doveridge, Derbyshire, and one letter to his step-grandfather [schoolmaster at the academy], Mr Joseph Hine. [1860-61]
A letter to parents, 17 August 1860. "I hope father has finished his hay. Has father sold his fat sheep? And if he has I hope he has got an excellent price for them...It is very kind of Mr and Mrs Hine taking us pupils again, and if he had not I should have been a dunce all my lifetime. Mr Hine says cousin Tommy will be a clever boy, which is certainly saying a great deal...Mr Hine was so kind to take us a walk one day to London, and Mr Hine took us into Holywell Street [known as 'Booksellers' Row'], which has a great many bookseller's shops...we went over Waterloo Bridge, and my hat flew right off into the Thames...and in a few minutes a boy fetched it up some steps, which was the waterman's son, and Mr Hine gave him fivepence."
A letter to parents, 20 November 1860. "I have the utmost pleasure in composing my monthly letter to you, which I hope will please all friends...Mr Hine is engaged in reading to us a very interesting book, 'The History of Volcanoes or Burning Mountains', which I think is one of the most wonderful things in all the world...Mr Hine yesterday took us a walk to Tooting Common, about 6 or 7 miles, and we returned home quite happy."
A letter to parents, 20 Feb 1861. "I was very glad to hear that you and father enjoyed yourselves at the ball. I suppose that there would be all the tenants of Doveridge there...I should suppose that the cows will be calving and that the sheep will be lambing and that you will be very busy...Mr Hine said that about forty convicts were flogged at Chatham for meeting till the skin came off their backs." [Postmarked London with Penny Red stamp]
A letter to parents, 28 May 1861. "The day that we went to Greenwich it was very fine. Mr Riddle, one of Mr Hine's friends, headmaster of Greenwich Hospital, was so kind as to let us see 800 boys at dinner, which was a very great sight...I am reading a very interesting book, 'Robinson Crusoe'...Last Sunday Mr Joseph Hine, Johnny White, Rupert Walker, and I went to the Crystal Palace, and that some of it is blown down, and we went up to the tower, which is 455 steps high, and we went all about the grounds." [Postmarked London with Penny Red stamp]
A letter to parents, undated, [c. 1860]. "Mr and Mrs Hine thank you very kindly for that good cheese and ham you was so kind as to send us and are glad that you have sold it so well."
A letter to Joseph Hine, March, 1860. "Lady Waterpark, Mrs Oakover and Miss Cavendish came over to see mother and she asked me which I liked best, Brixton or Doveridge. I said Brixton because I liked Mr Hine & he was so kind to me and he gave me so many books....Lord Waterpark said I was a very good boy in church on Ash Wednesday. I read my prayers so well. Please send when you want a cheese, we have only six left, so mother thought we must begin of cheese making again."
Together with a letter written by William's grandmother, Mrs Hine [wife of schoolmaster Joseph Hine], 3 April 1861, conveying her sympathies on the death of one of William's siblings, "It is God's will that it should be so, and he knows best...a little Angel in heaven."
The whole housed in a Uttoxeter chemist's prescription envelope for Mr. W. Wood.
❧ Joseph Hine was born in Cumberland and knew William Wordsworth. He notably edited Selections from the Poetry of William Wordsworth: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons, [1831], and published One Hundred Original Tales for Children, [1846]. He was a schoolmaster at Plymouth, and afterwards at Brixton where he knew Leigh Hunt
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