Gillam, A.C. to Aubrey Hall, December 25 1898 from Federal Hotel Fremantle
| Title: | Gillam, A.C. to Aubrey Hall, December 25 1898 from Federal Hotel Fremantle |
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| Identifier: | archives.org.au/Gillam,_A.C._to_Aubrey_Hall,_December_25_1898_from_Federal_Hotel_Fremantle |
| Parent item: | All letters Gillam - Ada & Arthur |
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| Authors: | Arthur Charles Gillam |
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| License: |  This work is free of known copyright restrictions.It entered the public domain in Australia on 1 January 2003. |
| Related people: | Harold Aubrey Hall · Arthur Charles Gillam |
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Federal Hotel
Fremantle
John Kennedy, Proprietor Fremantle, 25th December 1898
Dear Aubrey,
God bless you all, may long life and prosperity be your lot. It does me good to hear the old Xmas chants and hymns again what a terrible out of the way place that ? west is, it makes us long to get away from it altogether. I see by the reports in the paper that the weather has been much cooler since we left, it is quite cold down here & between Geraldton and ? there were several showers of rain on our way down. – The ?(fruit) ?(man) is in, is not worth sending up, it would be alright if you could get it in the condition it is ?(now), but it would not carry – I have asked the Chief Steward of the “Sultan” to drop you and me on her way back from Singapore. If he delivers what I ordered, there should be enough for yourselveves – Henry and, ?(Naish). If it cost anything G.P.O. Melbourne will find me. I have seen Sholl, he does not mind a bit about ?(Grimwich or Grimwade*)’s affair. My wife joins me in kindest regards & best wishes to you all.
Yours sincerely
A.C. Gillam
* GRIMWADE BROTHERS: Edward Norton (1866-1945), Harold William (1869-1949), and Sir Wilfrid Russell (1879-1955), businessmen, were sons of Frederick Sheppard Grimwade and his wife Jessie Taylor, née Sprunt, of Launceston. Felton Grimwade & Co., wholesale druggists formed in 1867, developed into firms manufacturing acids, salt, glass bottles, fertilisers and eucalyptus oil. Grimwade left a considerable business empire to his sons.
On their father's death in 1910 the three brothers inherited the original partnership and substantial interests in Felton Grimwade & Bickford's of Perth, J. Bosisto & Co., Cuming Smith & Co. Ltd, the Adelaide Chemical and Fertilizer Co. Ltd, and the Melbourne Glass Bottle Works Pty Ltd.
