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Document number: 1302
Date: 23 Aug 1825
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: AWDRY William Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA25(MW)-51
Last updated: 22nd December 2010

Chippenham <1>
Augt 23d 1825

Dear Sir/

I understand that Mr Grosett <2> is expected at the Abbey tomorrow & the family have been there for some time past – on the other side <3> is an Authority (copied from the Act of Parliamt) which I have to request the favor of you to sign & date & return to me some day previous to the 13th of September – as it will enable me to save the Auction Duty in case the Property should not fetch its estimated value – I had occasion to write to Mr King <4>, respecting the Leaves & requested him to get this Authority signed, but in my Letter to him to day, I have informed him that I should send it to you at Clifton –

I am Dear Sir Yr Obliged & obedt Sert
W. H. Awdry

W. H. F. Talbot Esq
4. Mall Buildings
Clifton
Bristol

Notes:

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

2. John Rock Grosett (1783-1866), MP; Jamaican Parliament; occupant of Lacock Abbey until summer 1827.

3. On a seperate sheet and probably returned to William Henry Awdry.

4. Of William Read King & Son, solicitors, London.

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