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Document number: 66
Date: Thu 15 May 1845
Dating: see Doc no 10054
Postmark: 16 May 1845
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BROUGHAM Henry Peter
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 20242
Last updated: 10th December 2010

G St <1>
Thursy

Dear Mr T.

You may rely on my doing all I can. But should you not present a Petition at once to the Lords? I could then state your case & the mention that this was the same Railway <2> formerly G W before the House – This would have a good effect.

I agree in all you say as to the futility of the assents & dissents – I think of forming an order to exclude all bills which have not a majority of assents – absolutely. and I will try so to prove it as that each three miles must have such a majority – viz 2/3 –

Yrs ver try
H. Brougham

My Kind regards & respects to Ly E. <3> You should lose no time. If you wish to see me come tomorrow mng to H. of Lds from 10 to 4. & I will come out to you in the Robing Room –

[envelope]
H. Fox Talbot Eqr
31 Sackville St


Notes:

1. Brougham lived at No. 4, Grafton Street, London.

2. The Wilts & Somerset railway, being proposed by I.K. Brunel, which was going to pass through the grounds of Lacock Abbey. WHFT had been an active supporter of Brunel in the original Great Western Railway bills, the first of which which passed the Commons in 1834 while he was an MP, but was defeated in the Lords, and the second, which was successful, in 1835. [See Doc. No: 05258].

3. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.

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