I MISS LORINA BULWER
A hand-stitched letter of note
Born in Suffolk in 1838, British needleworker Lorina Bulwer was one of five children to Ann and William Bulwer and the only sibling to stay at the family home for the remainder of their parents’ lives. Her father died in 1871; her mother in 1893. Little is known about the intervening years or reasons for her admission, but records show that by 1901, Bulwer had joined 515 others to become a resident of the of Great Yarmouth Workhouse in its ‘Female Lunatic Ward’. 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 died of influenza in 1912, still an inmate at the Workhouse. She left several embroidered letters behind.
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TO MAHARAJAH OF KELVEDON BRANDON THETFORD NORFOLK
TO T DANIELS ESQ THRIGBY HALL NR GT YARMOUTH NORFOLK
TO PALMER BROS DRAPERS MARKET PLACE GT YARMOUTH MESS – LACON BANKERS GT YARMOUTH
THE CHATTERIS CAMBS WOMAN E. BULWER MARRIED AN HEMAPHRODITE OR EUNICH
I MISS LORINA BULWER WAS EXAMINED BY DR PINCHING OF WALTHAMSTOW ESSEX AND FOUND TO BE A PROPERLY SHAPED FEMALE
I MISS LORINA BULWER DROVE TO THRIGBY HALL NORFOLK YES A GOOD FIND ALSO LAND RIGHTS NATHAN RIGHTS
THE WHOLE OF GT YARMOUTH WORKHOUSE THE WHOLE OF THE LAND ENCLOSED AND EVERY BUILDING THERE ON FOR YOU MUNDFORD CRANWICH THE TOFTS ESTATE NR NORWICH NORFOLK AN ESTATE FOR MAHARAJAH OF KELVEDON BRANDON THETFORD NORFOLK & PRINCE DULEEP SINGH
I MISS LORINA BULWER HAVE BEEN TO SANDRINGHAM NORFOLK AND ADMIRED THE GATES AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE LIMETREE WALK I SEE THE HUNTSMAN DRESSED IN SCARLET COAT WHITE BREECHES WHITE TOP BOOTS HIGH BLACK SILK HAT SILVER BULLION CORD ROUND THE RIM ALSO A CORD ROUND THE HAT A WHITE LEATHER BELT ROUND HIS WAIST I HEARD THE HORN I ALSO SEE A LITTLE CHILD ABOUT A YEAR OLD OR A MONTH OR TWO MORE DRESSED IN A WHITE WASHING DRESS AND CAPE A LARGE WHITE HAT RIDING ON A DONKEY IN A PANIER A SMALL COTTAGE DRESSED OLD WOMAN LEADING THE DONKEY AND A VERY TALL MAN SERVANT IN SWALLOW TAILCOAT SUPERFINE TROUSERS AND COAT WALKING BY THE SIDE OF THE DONKEY THE CHILD WAS ASLEEP THEY CAME THROUGH A GATE IN A MEADOW OR FIELD AND
PASSED THROUGH A NARROW PATH BETWEEN A FEW TREES BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD CLOSE TO THE MEADOW OR FIELD GATE + ASK E. BULWER ESQ IF HE KNEW OLD ANNA MARIA YOUNG WAS AN IMPOSTOR SHE MUST HAVE BEEN BORN THE DAY BEFORE E. BUWER ESQ’S MOTHER OR THE DAY AFTER WAS OLD ANNA MARIA THIRTY YEARS OF AGE WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED SHE IS WELL KNOWN IN NORWICH SHE HAS BEEN THERE YEARS KEEPING A HOUSE TO ADVOCATE REPUBLICAN SOCIALISTIC IDEAS ALSO WITH JOSEPH POWELL GARIBALDI HOTEL AND RICHARD TURNBRIDGE TALLOW CHANDLER SOUTH MARKET ROAD GT YARMOUTH NORFOLK. OLD EUNICH SEWARD ALIAS KING OLD MOTHER BUCK OLD MOTHER BUCK CATCHPOLE BOTH OF THESE DISGUSTING LOOKING OLD WOMEN AWKWARD SHAPES AND HORRID NAMES IN CAMBS TRICKS WITH THE FRENCH TRICKS INTERIOR INFERIOR FRENCH TRICKS. WOMEN ARE NOT PERMITTED IN TRICKS MEN ARE ONLY ADMITTED AS MEN TRICKES NOT BOYS NOT GIRLS NOT HOBDEHOYS MUCH LESS GURNEYS TRAMPS WOMEN THE HOUSE IS FULL OF TRICK WOMEN SOME OF FUDEEJOEY ENGLISH POWELLS WOMEN MANBY ROAD AND SAYS CORNER OVER FULLERS HILL GT YARMOUTH WILFRED WESTON A LUNATIC FROM PERRYMEAD BATH SOMERSETSHIRE FELSTEADIAN SCHOOL FELSTEAD ESSEX AND WELL KNOWN AT MEADOWS THE SO CALLED SURGEON KING STREET SHAM THE TUBE HE USED UPON THE P...S OF MR T ROBERTSON AT MRS W J BULWER GENEVE TERRACE CROWN ROAD WOULD HAVE PLACED MEADOWS IN A CONVICT PRISON THE REST OF HIS LIFE MR W I ROBERSON LATE OF SPORLE CUM PALGRAVE NTH SWATHAM NORFOLK IS A BROTHER THE TINGEYS ARE RELATED TO THE ROBERSONS CRAZY WILFRED WESTON HAD APARTMENTS AT MRS BULWERS GB CROWN ROAD E. BULWER ESQ TOLD HIS MOTHER NOT TO KEEP HIM IF SHE WAS AFRAID OF HIM HIS ABSURD WAYS THERE AND AT MR LASTS BAKER SOUTH HOWARD STREET PLENTY OF INFORMATION THERE OF THE LUNATIC WILFRED WESTON AND HIS ANTICS MAKING BREAD AT 4 O’CLOCKE IN THE MORNING IN HIS BAKE OFFICE WESTON FELL HEAD FORMOST IN THE DOUGH JUST AS IT WAS MAKING HE WAS TAKEN UNDER THE PUMP OR TAP TO WASH GAVE HIM JAM UPON HIS BREAD FOR BREAK FAST MRS LAST BROUGHT WESTON BACK TO HIS APARTMENTS CROWN ROAD HIS FATHER WESTON LIVES AT PERRYMEAD BATH SOMERSETSHIRE TERMED WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND DRAW THE WELL DRY WESTON A LUNATIC WHO PUMPS A CERTAIN TIME EVERY MORNING AS A SURE CURE FOR THE RHEUMATIC ALSO KISSING HIS WIFE’S TOES AND TELLING HER WHAT A BARGAIN HE HAD MET WITH FANNEREAUX WESTONS MRS DAWSON MRS RIPLEY 4 SISTERS THEY ARE FROM MARTHAM RECTORY NR GT YARMOUTH REVD PEARCE 4 DAUGHTERS HEREDITARY LUNATICS EVANS & HIS WIFE’S TRICK CYANIDE-POTASSIUM – MRS SEWARD ALIAS KINGS TRICK SUGAR OF LEAD.
HAUTBOIS IS A NORMANDY VILLAGE IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK N- NORTH WALSHAM ENGLAND THE BELLE VUE HOUSES IN GT YARMOUTH ONE IN ST NICHOLAS ROAD ON THE FACTORY SIDE AND ONE BELLE VUE HOUSE REGENT ROAD BOTH HOUSES HAVE SOUTH FRONTAGE THE HOUSE IS THE THIRD ONE FROM AYERS PHOTOGRAPHER AND FANCY CHAP FREEMAN LEATHER CUTTER LIVED IN BELLE VUE HOUSE REGENT ROAD THE NAME BELLE VUE NO USE WAS PAINTED ON THE GATE UPRIGHTS I MISS LORINA BULWER HAVE SEEN IT BELLE VUE WAS UPON THAT HOUSE FOR YEARS THIS IS BELLY VIEW WORKHOUSE CAISTER ROAD VAUDEVILLE A HOUSE AT CAISTER ABOUT THE SECOND HOUSE PAST THE CATHOLIC CEMETERY CAISTER ROAD CAPTN PURDY OWNER HE LIVES IN A HOUSE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE FACING VAUDEVILLE MRS MARYANN WRIGHT AND HER HUSBAND LIVED IN VAUDEVILLE HOUSE NO CHILDREN SHE IS LEFT HANDED HONEST HER HUSBAND WAS A FISHERMAN HER MAIDEN NAME ANNISON HER MOTHERS NAME SOPHIA ANNISON GENEVE TERRACE CROWN ROAD NAPOLEON PLACE JETTY ROAD THE TOBACCONIST SHOP KEPT BY BANASCHINA AN ITALIAN WITH A STATUETTE OF NAPOLEON ON THE FRONT OF THE SHOP AND IN THE SAME ROW OUTSIDE A PUBLIC HOUSE AN ADVERTISEMENT IN FRENCH PAINTED OVER THE SHOP WINDOW ALL THESE HOUSES BELONG TO THE FRENCH AND CREMORNE PLACE FRIARS LANE KING STREET ALL IN GT YARMOUTH NORFOLK BELLE VUE HOUSE CROMER NORFOLK LOOK TO SIDESTRAND OVERSTRAND AND BACTON NORFOLK COAST VAUDEVILLE THEATRE LONDON CREMORNE GARDENS LONDON BELLE VUE HOUSE GORLESTON SUFFOLK BELLE VUE HOUSE LOWESTOFT SUFFOLK LOOK TO SOUTHWOLD SUFFOLK FELIXSTOWE HUNSTANTON CORTON AND PAKEFIELD AT LOWESTOFT
I MISS LORINA BULWER LIVED AT BECCLES SUFFOLK WAS EDUCATED THERE UNTIL ABOUT SEVENTEEN YEARS OF AGE THEN CAME TO GT YARMOUTH NORFOLK TO LIVE BENACRE IS A NORMANDY VILLAGE A FEW MILES FROM BECCLES SUFFOLK IN THE SAME COUNTY SIR THOS SHERLOCK GOOCH BART LIVED AT BENACRE HALL REVD DASHWOOD HAS A VAULT THERE BURIED WITH HIS WIFE L. DASHWOOD E. SURGEON NORWICH NORFOLK WAS THEIR SON C DASHWOOD ESQ SURGEON GT YARMOUTH NORFOLK C DASHWOOD ESQ A CLERGY MAN I THINK AND ONE DAUGHTER WHO MARRIED REVD KERRISON WHO DIED HER SECOND HUSBAND I HEAR IS ALSO A CLERGY MAN MRS DASHWOOD THE MOTHER OF THE ABOVE
FAMILY HER MAIDEN NAME BURTON LIVED YEARS AGO AT THE DEANERY GT YARMOUTH NORFOLK A MOST AMIABLE LADY NOT RELATED TO ANY OF THE BURTONS OF GT YARMOUTH NORFOLK OR NORWICH REVD DASHWOOD LIVED IN A HOUSE CLOSE TO MRS W J BULWER WIFE AND FAMILY AT BECCLES SUFFOLK MRS DASHWOOD PASSED MOST OF HER AFTERNOONS THERE CONVERSING WITH MRS W J BULWER AND HEAR ME HER DEAR LITTLE LORINA REPEAT HER LETTERS SPELL – CAT – ALSO TO COUNT IN TIME MRS DASHWOOD TAUGHT LORINA BULWER THE PIANO FORTE NOTES MRS DASHWOOD TAUGHT ME MUSIC IN HER HOUSE MRS DASHWOOD HAD A-PIANO-HARP MRS DASHWOOD BOUGHT ME A MUSIC BOOK AT JARROLDS STATIONIER NORWICH WHEN SHE WAS STAYING AT HER SONS RESIDENCE LANCELOT DASHWOOD ESQ SURGEON NORWICH MRS DASHWOOD LIVED AT BECCLES SUFFOLK AT THE TIME SQUIRE THARP OF CHIPPENHAM CAMBS KNEW THE DASHWOOD ESQ WHO DROVE STONE HORSES IN HIS CARRIAGE HE ADVISED THE SQUIRE HOW TO ARRANGE ABOUT HIS FOREIGN ESTATE ALSO DASHWOOD ESQ TOLD THE SQUIRE THE WAY HE HAD ARRANGED HIS FOREIGN ESTATE WHICH JOINS SQUIRE THARPS – THE BULWER FAMILY HAD AN INDIAN ESTATE AND HAD FIVE BRANCH SHOPS IN ESSEX FOR THE SALE OF THE PRODUCTS OF THE INDIAN ESTATE BULWER ESQ OF WOOD DALLING HALL NORFOLK THE LAND HE FARMED 2000, 200 ACRES – THE BULWER ESQRS – WERE THE SONS OF H.M.G MAJESTY KING GEORGE OF ENGLAND BULWER ESQ OF WOOD DALLING HALL AND BULWER ESQ WHO HELD THE FIVE TRADE ESTABLISHMENTS WERE BROTHERS AND UNCLES OF MR W.J. 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
EXAMINATION SHE HAD TO WALK FOR THE DUKE TO SEE HRH PRINCESS VICTORIA SAT ON A SEAT WITH HER ROYAL MOTHER DUCHESS OF KENT PRINCESS VICTORIA HAD A SMALL BAG ON HER ARM FILLED WITH NEW SIXPENCES ANCY NANCY TICKLES MY FANCY PUT ONE IN HER MOUTH IT PASSED DOWN HER THROAT BY THE AID OF MEDICINE MRS TURNER OR SOMEONE OF THE FAMILY FOUND IT AGAIN ANCY NANCY TICKLES MY FANCY IS THE MOTHER OF E. BULWER ESQ NO 1 ST GEORGES PARK GT YAR MOUTH HIS FATHER IS MR W.J. BULWER OF CROWN ROAD GT YARMOUTH FORMERLY BECCLES SUFFOLK I MISS LORINA BULWER AM THEIR ONLY DAUGHTER I WENT TO A BELGIAN SCHOOL AT BECCLES LORD HASTINGS OF MELTON CONSTABLE NORFOLK IS RELATED TO LADY FORS HASTINGS _________ TO QUEEN VICTORIA WHO MARRIED THE DUKE OF NORFOLK IN THE EARLY PART OF HMG GRACIOUS MAGESTY QUEEN VICTORIA’S REIGN WOULD ASK HIS LORDSHIP IF HE CAN TELL ME THE MEANING OF SAVING –LORINA – IS HERR FRAULEIN – HE MUST HAVE TAKEN AN EXTRA GLASS OF MADEIRA OR THE DEVIL PLACED HIS FOOT ON HIM HE KNEW THE NOTORIOUS TAYLORS OF CHIPPENHAM CAMBS WHAT ROTTEN POX WHORE DID ANNA MARIA YOUNG INTRODUCE TO THE ROYAL COURT OF ENGLAND THE NUMBER –0 – TAYLORS THEY CANNOT PAY FOR A PENNY BUNDLE OF FIRE WOOD POOR POVERTY TAYLORS THE SODOMITE – CARNALITE TAYLORS CHIPPENHAM CAMBRIDGESGIRE KATE JOYCE HAD A LARGE RED PLUG OR BOLSTER DROPING DOWN FROM HER BEHIND I MISS LORINA BULWER WELL KNOWN BY THAT NAME SEE IT PENAL SERVITUDE FOR BOTH CRIMES AND CASES IN GT YARMOUTH NORFOLK A MAN HORSE THE OTHER CASE WAS TWO MEN A WARRANT ISSUED THEIR APPREHENSION – ASK E. BULWER ESQ WHERE THE BROAD BAND RING HIS MOTHER ANCY TICKLE MY FANCY HAD ANN BULWER ENGRAVED ON THE OUTSIDE ASK THE COURT JEWELLER OF LORD SUFFIELD THEY KNOW THE MEANING OF IT I MISS LORINA BULWER HAD MY FINGER MEASURED FOR A RING AND MY MOUTH MEASURED WHAT DOES IT MEAN ASK E. BULWER ESQ E. BULWER ESQ MARRIED ANN ANGOOD OF CHATTERIS CAMBRIDGESGIRE A DAMNED HELL FIRE SOCIALIST WHEN HE FOUND SHE WAS A DAMNED HELL FIRE SOCIALIST AND HE A LOYALIST HE SHOULD NOT HAVE MARRIED HER . LORINA IS AN – ANNEXE – ASK E. BULWER ESQ ABOUT IT - I MISS LORINA BULWER WONDER THE PEOPLE HAVE NOT THROWN ALL THE SLOPS OF THIS – NOTORIOUS BUG LICE AND FLEA TRIBE CAMBRIDGESHIRE SOCIALIST DEN AND PELTED HIM WITH ROTTEN EGGS AS HIS SOCIALST ANN OLD FAGGOT WIFE DIED AND WENT TO HELL SIX MONTHS AFTER E. BULWER ESQ BLESSED MOTHER ANCY NANCY TICKLES MY FANCY DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN TO LIVE IN PERPETUAL BLISS WITH THE LORD – JACK THE RIPPER TAYLOR CHIPPENHAM CAMBS THE KENTS OF DITTON FOUR MILES FROM CAMBRIDGE GOOCHS OF ST GEORGES ROAD OF BROOKLYN HOUSE FLUSHING TERRACE NELSON ROAD NORTH OF AUDLEY STREET NO 23 AND OF NO 5 PRIMROSE TERRACE GORDON ROAD SOUTHTOWN SUFFOLK THIS IS THE NOTORIOUS COFFIN BOX GOOCHS OF BROOKLYN HOUSE FLUSHING TERRACE THE NEIGHBOURS ALWAYS STOOD UP AND TURNED THEIR BACKS TO THE WINDOW EVERYTIME THEY CAME TO THE GATE MRS GOOCH TOLD MRS ANNCY NANCY TICKLE MY FANCY BULWER E. BULWER ESQRS MOTHER WHO LIVED IN AUDLEY STREET AND DIED THERE AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY SIX WITHIN ABOUT THREE WEEKS BEFORE SHE COMMENCED HER EIGHTY SEVENTH BIRTHDAY MRS GOOCH IS A WOMAN OF SHORT STATUE A DECREPID OLD WOMAN A FULL RED FACE HAIR BROWN TINTED A BRIGHTER HUE BROWN EYES WALKS THE AID OF A BLACK WALKING STICK HER HANDS ARE CRIPPLED WITH RHEUMATIC ALSO HER LEGS WHICH SHE RUB WITH OIL – ST JACOBS OIL AND MANY MORE SHE WEARS LONG DRAB LINDSEY DRAWS BECAUSE OF USING OILS ELLIMANS EMBROCATION & THIS NOTORIOUS OLD WOMAN KENT HAS BEEN RECEIVING FOR YEARS A CERTAIN SUM ON MONEY FROM THE TREASURY BECAUSE HER NAME OF KENT SMELL IN CAMBRIDGE SHIRE SO MANY COPIES OF THESE TREASURY DEFRAUDERS FLORENCE GOOCH TOLD ME MISS LORINA BULWER HER SISTER ALICE NICHOLS HAD A LITTLE A YEAR COMING IN I MISS LORINA BULWER HAD MY MONEY A DEED OF GIFT FROM MY MOTHER ANNCY NANCY TICKLE MY FANCY WHEN WE LIVED IN GENEVE TERRACE CROWN ROAD WE DID NOT ROB THE TREASURY FOR OUR MONEY THE BOTH KENTS HARRIET SEARS HER BROTHER MATHEW SEARS ARE BASTARDS FROM CHATTERIS CAMBRIDGESHIRE MARIA TURNER MRS ANNA MARIA YOUNG AND HER MUL TITUDE OF TRAMPS OLD MAD MOLLY HAWES WHO WAS TAKEN TO COLNEY HATCH ASYLUM IN A TINKERS CART STRAPPED IN SHE LOOKED AS IF THE DEVIL HAS CHASED HER THREE TIMES THROUGH THE FLAMES OF HELL FIRE AND TURNED OUT THIS HIDEOUS WILD BROWN EYED OLD WOMAN DIED ABOUT TWENTY ODD YEARS AGO THIS VILE HEMAPHRODITE OLD HAG WOULD BE NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARDS OF AGE HAD SHE LIVED SHE WAS NEVER MARRIED – MRS THOMAS BULWER WAS NEVER MARRIED MR THOMAS BULWER SHOULD HAVE PROSECUTED HER FOR USING THE NAME OF BULWER GENERAL WEGL BULWER CB OF HEYDON HALL NORFOLK AND KNEBWORTH HALL HERTS HIS SON LORD LYTTON WAS HER LATE MAGESTY QUEEN VICTORIAS GODSON HE WAS BRITISH AMBASSADOR OF PARIS ALSO VICEROY OF INDIA THIS FAMILY HAVE CERTAIN ROYAL RIGHTS ESTABLISHED MR W.J. BULWER WHO MARRIED ANN HELD BY THE NEWMARKET RACE TRUSTEES WHO PLACED HER WITH THE TURNERS OF CHIPPENHAM CAMBS WAS PRESENTED TO HRH DUKE OF KENT HRH DUCHESS OF KENT HRH PRINCESS VICTORIA THE LATE QUEEN OF ENGLAND AT BARTON MILLS NORFOLK BY APPOINTMENT THEY WERE TO SEE COKE ESQ THE LITTLE PRINCESS VICTORIA HAD A SMALL BAG WITH NEW SIXPENCES ANNCY NANCY TICKLE MY FANCY WAS A PRINCESS SHE WAS MARRIED TO MR WJ BULWER AT CHIPPENHAM CHURCH CAMBS BY LICENCE FROM THE BISHOP OF NORWICH CATHEDRAL NORFOLK HER PLATE WAS SENT TO A MOLINARI HALESWORTH SUFFOLK JEWELLER FOR MR WJ BULWER’S MONOGRAME E. BULWER ESQ IS HER SON HE LIVES AT NO 1 ST GEORGES PARK GT YARMOUTH NORFOLK HIS MUSIC MASTER LIVED AT LOWESTOFT AND CAME TO BECCLES TO GIVE MASTER E. BULWER HIS MUSIC LESSONS E. BULWER ESQ SEMI-ROYAL – I KNOWN AND BROUGHT UP AS MISS LORINA BULWER AND LIVED WITH E. BULWER ESQS MOTHER ANNCY TICKLE MY FANCY UNTIL HER DEATH WHICH TOOK PLACE AT 22 AUDLEY STREET GT YARMOUTH NORFOLK MR ROBERT FORDER ST NICHOLAS ROAD MADE HER COFFIN MR SHREVE THE HEARSE AND MOURNING COACH ST NICHOLAS ROAD THE STONE MASON MR STANLEY CAISTER ROAD PALMER BROS DRAPERS MARKET PLACE GT YARMOUTH NORFOLK MY MOURNING I TOLD MR STANLEY THE DATE WAS NOT CORRECT ON HER GRAVE STONE IT MADE THREE YEARS DIFFERENCES HER AGE WAS EIGHTY SIX HER ELDEST SON E. BULWER ESQ IS HER TRUE SON THE FAMILY CHANGED ANNA MARIA WENT TO THE DUKE HAMILTON THE BANKERS PUT IN ANOTHER SHE MARRIED WHEN WE LIVED AT SEYMOUR PLACE THE HOUSE IS THE PROPRTY OF MR HOL – BLACK SHOE MANUFACTURER NORWICH THETFORDS LIVERY STABLES ST GEORGES ROAD SUPPLIED THE WEDDING CARRIAGES WHO SENT THE POSTILLIONS I DO NOT KNOW HER ELDEST SON LIVING IS FORTY YEARS OF AGE MRS YOUNG WORE A FALSE NOSE FALSE TEETH FALSE HAIR ENAMELLED HANDS FALSE FEET OR STUMP LEGS E. BULWER ESQ – MUST HAVE SEEN THROUGH THE ART OF BASTARD MONGREL FALSE NOSE CHEST EXPANDER EARS AN HEMAPHRODITE OR EUNICH BOTH THESE WOMEN ARE WELL KNOWN TO MADAM RACHEL LONDON AND AT THE ROOKERY NEWMARKET CAMBS ALSO THE LANGHAMS BOOKMAKERS THE ROOKERY NEWMARKET CAMBS I AM PRINCESS VICTORIA’S DAUGHTER LORINA BULWER WAS TAKEN TO THE ROYAL NUSERY QUEEN VICTORIAS IN HER INFANCY I PASSING AS MISS LORINA BULWER AND LIVING WITH MR & MRS W J BULWER GROCER BECCLES SUFFOLK HIS WIFE ANNCY NANCY TICKLE MY FANCY WHO SENT ME THE SO CALLED MISS LORINA BULWER TO A BELGIAN SCHOOL AT BECCLES SUFFOLK WHO SENT ME ALL MY FRENCH BOOKS E BULWER ESQ WAS TOLD MY GENUINE NAME HE SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME I WOULD HAVE FOUND MY WAY TO THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND INFORMED OF THE NOTORIOUS THREE SISTERS
TAYLOR PASSING IN THE NAME OF VICTORIA THE NEXT ONE ADELAIDE THE THRID ONE CALLED SARAH ANN THESE THREE WOMEN HAVE DEFRAUDED THE REVENUE OF THOUSANDS BY IN THE NAME OF VICTORIA AND ADELAIDE POOR PEOPLE WITH ABSURD IDEAS THESE IMPOSTORS AND PRETENDERS ARE THE SISTERS OF CHARLES TAYLOR CHIPPENHAM CAMBS CAMBRIDGESHIRE PEOPLE ARE HELL FIRE DESPOT – THE FRENCH 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. 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. I MISS LORINA BULWER HAVE A JEW TIE THROUGH DR PINCHING OF WALTHAMSTOW ESSEX MOSES & SON MINORIES LONDON KNOWS
Embroidered letter made by Lorina Bulwer c. 1901, NWHCM: 2004.824. Image courtesy of Norfolk Museums Service. Transcription with thanks to Ruth Fleming.
This remarkable letter features in the second volume of Letters of Note, presented as an enormous gatefold due to its dimensions:
Interesting observations from a perceptive lady.
Found this because I visited Gressingham Workhouse Museum and saw a small sampler of her work. I was so interested and wanted to know much more. Loved the whole museum but that little exhibit has filled my head with wonder and curiosity! This post a perfect find for me. Thank you