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Document number: 3567
Date: 02 Sep 1837
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BARROW John
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA37-42
Last updated: 4th February 2012

Admiralty
2nd September 1837

Sir

Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter <1> of the 2nd Inst I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that Capn Superintendt Sir John Louis <2> has been directed to supply Mr Mower, <3> Upholsterer, with a piece of old English Oak taken from one of Her Majesty’s Ships, for the purpose of making a Coffin for the late Rear Admiral Charles Feilding, <4> – upon application for the same at Woolwich Yard.

I am Sir Your very humble Servant
Jn Barrow

Henry Fox Talbot Esqre
31 Sackville Street

Notes:

1. Letter not located.

2. Probably Sir John Louis, 2nd Baronet (d. 1863).

3. William Mower, upholsterer & coffin maker, London.

4. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.

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