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I Miss Lorina Bulwer: A hand-stitched letter of note

A hand-stitched letter of note

It was there, in 1901, that she began sewing the vast, intricate piece seen here: an enormous run of hessian cloth, 12ft in length, on which is featured the hand-stitched text of a somewhat rambling, frequently angry, biographical letter that includes mention of her family members, neighbours, doctor, and even Queen Victoria. BULWER’S WIFE WAS MARRIED TO ANN SO TERMED ANN TURNER OF CHIP- PENHAM CAMBS BY LICENCE FROM THE BISHOP OF NORWICH IT COST £5 MARRIED AT CHIPPENHAM CHURCH CAMBS SHE HAD LIGHT BLUE EYES FAIR COMPLEXION NOSE EXCEEDING GOOD WHEN A CHILD SHE WAS STAYING IN NORFOLK SHE WAS TAKEN TO BARTON MILLS TO SEE HRH PRINCESS VICTORIA A LITTLE CHILD AND HER ROYAL FATHER AND MOTHER THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF KENT WHO WERE THEN GOING TO HOLKHAM HALL TO SEE – COKE ESQ MISS ANCY-TICKLES MY FANCY- WAS HELD UP IN THE ARMS OF A MAN BY APPOINTMENT THE COACH DOOR WAS OPENED SHE WAS PLACED UPON THE STEP OF THE COACH THE ROYAL DUKE OF KENT LOOKED FORST AT ONE SIDE OF HER FACE THEN AT THE OTHER AFTER A MINUTE I MISS LORINA BULWER HAVE A JEW TIE THROUGH DR PINCHING OF WALTHAMSTOW ESSEX MOSES & SON MINORIES LONDON KNOWS REPUBLICANS WOULD NOT ENCOURAGE THE BOOKMAKERS LANGHAMS BULGARIAN ATROCITY TRICKS LONDON MUSIC HALLS & THEATRES KNOW JOHN LANGHAM THE LUNATIC THE BACKERS SENT HIM OFF THE NEWMARKET HEATH AND PLACED HIM IN BROADMORE LUNATIC ASYLUM HE IS THE FELLLOW WHO PASSED AS BACCARAT WILDON OF TRANBY COURT HE INSULTED HRH PRINCE OF WALES THE SCANDAL WAS REPORTED IN THE NEWS PAPERS AND THE PULPIT JOHN LANGHAM IS A BASTARD LIVING IN LONDON WITH HIS MOTHER SHE FOUND SOMETHING TO DO AT A THEATRE AND JOHN LANGHAM WAS SENT TO A GUN MAKER BY THE KINDNESS OF A FEW FRIENDS HE MARRIED SUSAN TURNER OF CHIPPENHAM CAMBS THEIR SON HAS BEEN PASSING AS SIR SAVILLE CROSSLEY OF SOMERLEYTON HALL NR LOWESTOFT SUFFOLK THE VICTORIA ADELAIDE AND SARAH ANN TAYLORS TURNERS AND LANGHAMS OUGHT TO BE UNDER BOLTS AND BARS IN HORSE MONGER LANE JAIL OR NEWGATE MASTER WALTER BULWER WAS LORD KER’S SON AND LORD KER AND SON FOR YEARS THEY ARE POOR POVERTY DRESSED UP WITH ALIAS’S FROM A TO Z THE OLD MAN PASSED AS SIR CHARLES HARVEY OF CROWN POINT NORWICH HE PRETENDED TO SHOOT HIMSELF HE QUICKLY FOUND HIS WAY IN TO GT YARMOUTH WORKHOUSE THEY THE SO CALLED SON IN LAW STRACEY OF RACKHEATH PARK NORWICH THE FELLOW HERE PASSING AS MASTER UNMASKED WILL PROVE TO BE JOHN LANGHAM’S SON AND SUSAN LANGHAM HIS WIFE HER MAIDEN NAME SUSAN TURNER OF CHIPPENHAM CAMBS MARIA TURNER IS HER SISTER THESE TWO WOMEN ARE GEORGE DAWSON TURNERS DAUGHTERS FORMERLY OF CHIPPENHAM CAMBS THE MATRON I THINK WILL PROVE TO BE ONE OF THE NOTORIOUS TAYLORS VICTORIA ADELAIDE OR SARAH ANN CHIPPENHAM VILLAGE CAMBS THEIR FATHER WAS A CARPENTER THE WOMAN ANNA MARIA AFTERWARDS MRS YOUNG WENT TO JOHN LANGHAM’S LONDON IN THE YEAR 1851 TO THE EXHIBITION HYDE PARK SHE WENT FROM CHIPPEN HAM STAYED THERE ONE WEEK E. BULWER ESQ KNOW THIS HOUSE IS FULL OF NORWICH TRAMPS POCKTHORPE CASTLE DITCHES AND ARE PLACED IN THE ROWS FOR A CERTAIN TIME THEN BROUGHT INTO THIS CHARLOTTE STREET BROTHEL WORKHOUSE THE FELLOW ORDERING EVERY THING HERE IS HUNTER BUNTER LANGHAM SON OF JOHN AND SUSAN ROSS LANGHAM TRAINED AT CAM BRIDGE FOR A TRICK MAN BESSIE BARTON OF CAMBRIDGE TOLD ME KNOWN AS MISS LORINA BULWER SO WELL SHE SAID WELL I NEVER SEE SUCH A ______________________ HIS GRANDFATHER SAID ALTHOUGH OF WEAK MIND HE COULD HAVE BEEN PUT TO SOMETHING TO BRING IN A LIVING HIS FRIENDS EMPLOYED ARE HUNTER BUNTER WALTER DIVER HUNTER BUNTER FREDERICK DANBY PALMER LAWYER GT YARMOUTH FRANK BURTON LAWYER GLENELG HOUSE SOUTH END GT YARMOUTH KEEPS A BROTHEL DANIEL MEADOWS KING STREET SURGEON SO TERMED KEEPS A BROTHEL D. MEADOWS IS FRANK BURTON’S FATHER IN LAW MEADOWS SECOND DAUGHTER MARRIED FRANK BURTONS BROTHER BOTH MEN ARE DANIEL MEADOWS SONS IN LAW THE FELLOW BUXTON THE FELLOW LANGHAM SUSAN TURNER ROSS LANGHAMS SON THE TAYLORS CHARLES TAYLOR THE FATHER HIS TWO SONS ONE DRIVE A GT YARMOUTH SCAVENGER CART AND TWO DAUGHTERS ONE IS THE SO CALLED PRINCESS OF WALES THE SO CALLED PRINCE OF WALES IS BOB SEWARD’S SON THE MAN WHO MURDERED A WOMAN AT NORWICH BOILED SOME OF HER REMAINS WITH SAGE AND ONIONS TO TRY HUMAN FLESH WHO WITH MRS ANNA MARIA YOUNG OF WALTHAMSTOW ESSEX THE GROVE WALTHAMSTOW SHE AGREED FIRST WITH FREDERICK DANBY PALMER LAWYER GT YARMOUTH BEFORE SHE MARRIED THE FELLOW GEORGE YOUNG OF WALTHAMSTOW ESSEX FOR A VOYAGE IN LOYDS SHIP FOR HER HUSBAND GEORGE YOUNG SHE HAD FIVE CHILDREN WITH HER THREE AND TWO OF HER HUSBANDS CHILDREN BY HIS FIRST OR FORMER WIFE SHE IS NOT RELATED TO THE BULWERS NOT THE LEAST RELATIONSHIP SHE IS AN IMPOSTOR FORGER DEFRAUDER AN INTIMATE FRIEND OF MADAM RACHEL TAYLORS VICTORIA ADELAIDE AND SARAH ANN TAYLORS THESE ARE THE LEADERS OF THE FEMALE NOTORIOUS CARD-SHARPS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE MRS ANNA MARIA YOUNG IS ALIAS MRS PINCHING SHE HAS BEEN USING THE NAME OF MRS PINCHING FOR YEARS I MISS LORINA BULWER WONDER – LOYD THE SHIPPER – DID NOT PROSECUTE HER SHE PASSED AS ANNA MARIA BULWER AND WAS A PUPIL OF MISS WINN SCHOOL BECCLES SUFFOLK E. BULWER ESQ ELDEST SISTER WAS BROUGHT UP BY HIS GRACE DUKE HAMILTON AND MARRIED LORD GEORGE OR LORD JOHN MANNERS SONS OF HIS GRACE DUKE RUTLAND OF BELVOIR CASTLE SOMERSETSHIRE HIS GRACE THE DUKE HAMILTON OWNED AND LIVED AT ICKWORTH PARK SUFFOLK AND OWNER OF IRISH ESTATE WHEN IS THE – LAND TAX – PROPERTY TAX – LEGACY DUTY - DUTY IN CRESTS – NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO BE HOLDER OF ONE UNLESS FULL AND CLEAR PROOF CAN BE GIVEN AT THE HERALD OFFICE LONDON AS TO RIGHTFUL LAND &c DOG LICENCE – GUN LICENCE – GUN LICENCE FOR CROW BOY – TAX ON LIVERY SERVANTS – LICENCE ON ALL VEHICLES ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF WHEELS LET ON HIRE – SUCCESSION DUTY ON NOBLEMEN’S LANDED ESTATES TAX ON SHARES INCOME TAX &c WHEN DID THE POOR POVERTY CAMBRIDGESHIRE PEOPLE PAY THESE GOVERNMENT TAXES WHEN DO CAMBRIDGESHIRE PEOPLE PAY THEIR LOCAL RATES – WHERE IS THE ASSESS TAX COLLECTOR – WHERE IS THE LOCAL TAX COLLECTOR – THE LOCAL LANDLORD THE EXCISE MAN WHEN WAS GURNEYS BANK ENROLLED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT NOT ONE PAGAN IN THIS WORKSHOUSE THE PEOPLE ARE REAL ENGLISH TRAMPS HAWKERS SHOW PEOPLE ENGLISH – NOT ONE BELONG TO ANY OF MY CLASS NOT ONE HERE HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH MY PARTY.

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