Item 41 - Letter from Sir George Trevelyan to Paul François Hubrecht

1 item: : letter with notes on separate sheet about the Equitable Mutual Insurance Society.

Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - He and his wife are quite satisfied with what Hubrecht proposes: understands that Elizabeth will manage her own property and pay 'three hundred pounds annually to sustaining the household'. Enclosing a 'rough, but substantially accurate, description of the Equitable [Mutual Insurance Society]' in his own hand, outlining the way it functions and the favourable opinion held of it by Sir Robert Hamilton 'the ablest English public servant of our day'; says he has insured all three of hims sons, and himself, for ten thousand pounds each, paying Robert's premium as a lump sum in 1882; has written to the Actuary for a printed account which he will send on. Will now inform their relatives of the forthcoming marriage.

The separate sheet in Sir George's hand describing the Equitable Mutual was found in error with 13/43, a letter from Sir George to Paul Hubrecht dated 28 Nov 1899, which originally enclosed printed details on the Society.