Catalogue description Henry Whiteway and Co, Whimple, correspondence

Correspondence of Henry Whiteway and Co., cider makers. Sorted into envelopes as follows: 1. Accompanying payment for cider - correspondence from customers; 2. About apples and sloes, from farmers and other suppliers; 3. About empty bottles, barrels, casks, from customers; 4. Requests for prices and testimonials from customers and prospective customers; 5. Orders for cider and related correspondence; 6. Receipts, paid bills, for moneys paid by Whiteways to various suppliers; 7. Correspondence mentioning or referring to the effects of drinking cider - beneficial, medicinal, and harmful; 8. Miscellaneous correspondence; 9. Requests for samples of cider from customers and prospective customers; 10. Emply envelopes and other rubbish; 11. Correspondence about breakages and delays in delivery; 12. Complaints from customers about cider.

Henry Whiteway and Co.

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Presented to the Devon and Exeter Institution by Mr. Whiteway in 1992.