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Document number: 2300
Date: 17 Jan 1832
Recipient: FEILDING Charles
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA(H)32-1
Last updated: 6th February 2013

Warminster
17 Janry 1832

My Dear Mr F.

I hope there will be no mistake in sending the pheasants to my friends at Chippenham <1> – I daresay Mr Awdry <2> would point out to the groom (if they are sent by him) where the people live, as there are several in the town that have the same names – And I wish you would ask Mr A. where Mr Witts lives as I think I heard he had left the Town, but if he has not, I should like a brace of birds to be sent to him.

If you like to amuse yourself in rural matters, the plantation by the cascade (beyond the brook) wants thinning: and so does the one by the wall in front of the house. In the latter it is chiefly the black poplars, one half of which might be spared – The trees that come away, to be planted at Nethermore <3> along with some others that Fitzsimmons <4> is going to plant there. If you have not time for this affair, consign it to Awdry

Yours affly
Henry Talbot

Captain Feilding
Lacock Abbey


Notes:

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

2. Probably William Henry Awdry (1778–1847), solicitor, Chippenham.

3. Nethermore Farm and Wood, Lacock, Wiltshire.

4. Cornelius Fitzsimmons, Scottish gardener at Lacock Abbey.

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