| Description | Mainly to Richard Smith from Rev. Francis Fowke and Lewis Stride. Includes reference to: new church at Pensnett (mentioning church road and wall, patronage of living, list of subscriptions and report of expenditure of funds); Pensnett schools, including appeal for two new schools; consecration of new church; state of organ and pulpit; state of Pensnett church yard; excavations in Pensnett church (with plan); Pensnett parsonage; address to Lord Ward on his marriage; the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace [1851]; voluntary church rate; and churchwardens' meetings.
Other correspondents include: G. H. Bond; William Mathews; William Webb; John Benbow; Thomas Jevons; A[melia] Ward; the Church Commissioners Office; and the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels.
Bundle cover endorsed: '256 Pensnett Church - Special Packets - Revd Fras. Fowke - Lord Ward' (bundle cover inside endorsed: 'The Revd. Fras. Fowke Hunts Mill Pensnett nr Dudley - Gen[era]l letters 1848 - Lord Ward') |