WESTON HALL: Two folio Ledgers, 'An Inventory of Contents', 1911 / 'Legacy, Succession and Estate Duties', 1814-1923, with two related letters, 1912-1950. comprises: WESTON HALL. (Northamptonshire). Inventory of Contents, Weston Hall Stabling & Gardens &c., 1911. An Inventory of the Household Furniture, Oil Paintings, Engravings, Miniatures, Silver, Jewellery, Linen, Wines, Garden Utensils, Stable Requisitions, &c., compiled by H.P. Stage, Auction, Land Estate & Valuation Brackley, (Northamptonshire), on behalf of solicitors, Frere Cholmeley & Co., 28 Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C., June, 1911, folio., (325 x 203mm), buff- coloured, ruled soft paper wrappers, titled in manuscript to front, 'June 1911, Lady Harriet Frances Wyndham Hanmer deceased . . . ', title page, 4pp. Index, and 82 leaves of single-sided typed inventory, 7 leaves of which have further pencil manuscript lists and marginal notes written to versos at the back of the ledger, 6 loose leaves of typed inventory listing Plate and Oil Paintings, stapled to top of pages, together with two letters loosely inserted, the first - a 1pp., 8 line manuscript letter, dated August 7, 1912, from the solicitors firm, Frere Cholmeley, 28 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London W.C., written on their printed headed notepaper to Mr. Thomas, Hurworth Manor, Darlington, (County Durham), 'Dear Mr. Thomas, I now enclose your copy of the Inventory of the contents of Weston Hall. It has now been carefully examined with the original copy approved & signed by you, & is quite correct'; the second letter - a 1pp., 10 line typescript, dated 1st July, 1950, from the solicitors firm, Frere, Cholmeley & Nicholsons, (same Lincoln's Inn address), to Mrs. Sacheverell Sitwell, Weston Hall, Towcester, Northampton, 'My dear Georgia, We have been making some searches here and found some old papers giving a list of pictures, etc. which were included in the Estate of a member of the Hamer (sic) Family which we believe form the basis of the Weston Heirlooms. I enclose a list and would be grateful of your views. . . .', the firm advises Georgia Sitwell to add to the enclosed list the items of furniture which are heirlooms, or take away those that are no longer there, in order for the present Trustees and Sachie (Sir Sacheverell Sitwell), to sign the list and 'get the thing settled'; WESTON ESTATE, NORTHANTS. Accounts for Legacy, Succession and Estate Duties, 1814- 1923. a bound ledger of documents, folio, (430 x 275mm), dark blue cloth, titled label to front 'Accounts for Legacy, Succession and Estate Duties, paid on the deaths of 1) Colonel The Hon. Henry Hely Hutchinson in 1814. - 2) Harriet Frances Lady Hanmer in 1911. - 3) Mrs. Georgina Mary Thomas in 1923, (bound 11/8/24)', 117pp., includes Inland Revenue accounts of real estate and leasehold properties, annuity receipts, debts in bond and other securities, three valuations, 7pp., of plate, oil paintings and books in the Library at Weston, 1923, 3pp. list of The Weston Estate cottages, land and tenants, 1pp. typescript document detailing the line of inheritance for the Coolcott Estate, situated in the Barony of Shilmalier and County Wexford, Ireland, held under Foo Farm Grant, dated 22 August, 1856 between the Honourable Henry Hely Hutchinson and the Rt. Hon. Barbara Dowager Countess of Donoughmore. Weston Hall was the home of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell and his Canadian wife Georgia Doble, from 1927 until his death in 1988. The house was inherited through the female line of the family until Harriet Hely-Hutchinson died in 1864, leaving Weston Hall to her daughter, Harriet Frances, (later Lady Hanmer), who bequeathed Weston Hall to her nephew, Sir George Sitwell, (1860 - 1943). The 17th century manor house and ancestral home of the Sitwell family played host to an eclectic circle of art and literary friends including Evelyn Waugh, Arthur and Zita James, Rex Whistler, Virginia Woolf, and Cecil Beaton. The young William Walton, a protégé of the Sitwells, composed much of the music for his choral cantata Belshazzar's Feast whilst he was living at Weston Hall. (Qty. 4) Provenance: The Sitwell Family Library, Weston Hall.