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Document number: 2179
Date: 27 Apr 1831
Postmark: 27 Apr 1831
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Charles
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Brookers.

6 oClock

Cambridge election take place Tuesday 3d same day as Chippenham <1> – but if you hurry away you may be in Time to vote at Cambg they vote is of consequence there – It would be horrid to have Goulburn & Peel <2> return –

Yr aff C. F.

Banbury corporation has said to Ld Bath <3> that <illegible> <4> not intend to abide by his recommendation <illegible> Reform

W. H. Fox Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

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

2. Henry Goulburn (1784–1856), statesman, and Sir Robert Peel (1788–1850), Prime Minister. Goulburn was home secretary under Sir Robert Peel in 1835.

3. Henry Frederick Thynne, 3rd Marquiss of Bath (1797–1837).

4. Text obscured by ink blot.

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