Bowden Park Chippenham
18 Feb 1858.
Dear Mr Talbot
I have been to see the deep Hole you have excavated. The ironstone seems richer and <heavier?> than any I have seen, but I should think the cost of bringing it to the surface would be considerably more than at the Seend Quarry, if it may be so called – I omitted the other day to say that the address of Ld Talbots Solicitor is
Mr Nicholson
4 Old Palace Gard.
Westmr
in the event of your finding the Deed, & so being able to let him see it.
Yrs vy truly
<M?> Gladstone