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Document number: 2579
Date: 01 Feb 1833
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: AWDRY William Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA33(MW)-16
Last updated: 1st May 2012

Chippenham <1>
1st Febry 1833

Dear Sir/

I am not aware at this moment that I have any particular Business upon which I need trouble you before you go to Town –

I am very glad to learn that you have again thought of the plan for letting Garden ground to the Poor, as I have little doubt of its advantages if extensively acted upon as I can not conceive anything so likely at present to alleviate the unfortunate state of the unemployed Poor & thereby diminish the Poor Rates also –

I will take care to have the Wicket Gate made & the other mended. –

If you should not have had leisure to look into Mr Paley’s Tythe Account, perhaps you will take it with your other Papers to Town & send it me from thence previous to Lady Day if you can make it convenient–<2>

I believe that the Poney will not exactly suit either of my Relatives –

I am Dear Sir Yr obliged Sert
W. A. Awdry

W. H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey

Notes:

1. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.

2. Rev James Paley (1790–1863), Vicar at Lacock. Lady Day is one of the traditional English quarter days, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, on 25 March.

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