Roberts Family Collection
Item set
- Identifier
- COL49
- Title
- Roberts Family Collection
- Description
- Items associated with the family of Sir James Roberts, owner of Salts Mill and Saltaire in the early twentieth century.
- Associated person or organisation
- Additional information
- Type
Items
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H2-008a: Roberts' letter book 1914-1917 Book of letters in a red coloured bound ledger, with numbered pages. The letters are mainly typed and are a record of the letters sent by Sir James Roberts while he owned and managed Salts Mill. They cover many business dealings concerning Salts Mill, management of the Mill and Sir James's Milner Field Estate, difficulties in trade during the First World War, the position of his only surviving son in the army during the war. A letter to Mr August Bermann in 1914 dealing with trade in Russia. A letter to Mr Lodge in 1917 discusses the winding up of Belwarp Ltd which was a subsidiary company of Sir Titus Salts Bart., Sons and Co Ltd, based in Argentina. A letter in 1916 to Michael Sadler, Vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds, offers an endowment of £10,000 to establish a chair of Russian.