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Letters to Alfred Longsdon (c1828-1893+), Denmark Hill and Brighton
Catalogue reference: amsh/AMS5605
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- amsh/AMS5605
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Title (The name of the record)
- Letters to Alfred Longsdon (c1828-1893+), Denmark Hill and Brighton
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1892-1893
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- East Sussex Record Office
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- AMS 5605
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Documents given by the Business Archives Council (via BRA 686), 22 March 1963 (ACC 549).
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Alfred Longsdon was the English director of the Krupp iron and steel company of Essen. In 1881 he was enumerated, aged 53, with his wife, daughter-in-law and grandchildren at Fairfield, Denmark Hill in Surrey; he was described as a civil engineer born in Southwark (PRO RG11/616/108).
These letters, written to him by his business associates between Decemebr 1892 and August 1893, all express concern for his health. In May 1893 he was suffering from a blood-clot in the leg. His friends' concern was well-founded, Longdon died at Fairfield on 27 November 1893, aged 66. Probate of his will was granted to Alan Clifford Fogden, esq, and Edmund Thomas Moore Teesdale, solicitor, on 10 January 1894, when his estate was valued at £35,457, subsequently raised to £36,900 on a second re-swearing in August 1895.
These letters seem to have been sent to ESRO on account of Longsdon's occasional residence at 3 Regency Square, to which one of them is addressed.
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Letters to Alfred Longsdon (c1828-1893+), Denmark Hill and Brighton