My dear Talbot
My bankers here sent the enclosed paper wh needs the signature of my trustees, to enable them to credit me with £300 a year received as pin-money, together with arrears of the same now in the banker’s hands – Will you be so good as to sign it.
I hope that you will come to Iford<1> in the course of the month while the fine weather lasts, my mother<2> wd begs me to say that if Mrs Talbot <3> wd dine early & drive home in the cool, we shall be at home except on Wednesday next.
Yrs affly
Gaisford
Iford July 11th
Notes:
1. Iford Manor, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, the residence of his father, Dr Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), Dean of Christchurch and Curator of the Bodlein Library.
2. This was actually his stepmother, Jane Catherine Gaisford, née Jenkyns (1787-1863), who had married his father in 1832. His biological mother was his father's 1st wife, Helen Margaret, née Douglas (1791-1831).
3. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (30 Jan 1811 - 9 Sep 1880), m. WHFT 20 Dec 1832.