‘N.B. — The above sincerely wishes Mr. D. Grant, his ever kind friend, a long continuance of health, prosperity and peace, on his entering his eighty-fifth year.
July, 1835.
James Dinwiddie.’
A black-edged card has been gummed underneath, bearing these words:—
‘Died,
This morning, at half-past ten o’clock,
Mr. Dinwiddle, of apoplexy.
Poole, May 25th, 1836.’
It is a fine old Bible, printed in 1607.
I remain,
Yours sincerely,
E. W. Whittenbury Kaye.”
I have visited Mr. Kaye since receiving the above letter. The Bible and portrait came to him after the death of Mr. Clifton Whittenbury, whose father, Mr. R. D. Whittenbury, of Ramsbottom, was long connected with the Grants.[1] He, along with Major Grant, was executor and trustee under the will of the last William Grant — the nephew of the Cheerybles — who died in 1873. And Mr. R. D. Whittenbury
- ↑ See p. 138 infra.
