Solicitor's papers, drafts and accounts relating to the Alexander family's instructions to sell their 'family property' at Herne Bay for £1,400 to Mr Collard 'alias Horne'. The papers include a draft 'Schedule of Title Deeds and Writings relating to a messuage Windmill and lands at Herne Bay' dating from 1824 through to 1879, the property having been sold by the Charles brothers (Edmund and Charles) and Henry Stanley (Eliza's widower) to [James] Alexander on 31 August 1869. The firm of solicitors is Emmerson & Co, Sandwich, Kent.
Solicitor's papers, drafts and accounts relating to the sale of "a freehold house windmill land at Herne Bay" by the Alexander family to "Horne otherwise Collard". The documents include: a very clear schedule of "title deeds & writings relating to a messuage windmill land & hereditaments at Herne Bay in the County of Kent"; the Alexander family's solicitor's draft responses to requisitions on title raised by the purchaser's solicitor, Walter Furley of Canterbury; the cash account of the Alexander family's solicitors (Emmerson & Co of Sandwich), showing the shares received by each of eight Alexander brothers and the succession duty paid;