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Document number: 1618
Date: 10 Mar 1877
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: HOBHOUSE Charles Parry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 29th April 2012

Monkton Farleigh,
Bradford-on-Avon.
March 10. 1877

My dear Sir

I have uncovered a considerable part of the Chapel, <1> i.e the site of it, of the old monastery at this Place & it has occurred to me first that you would like to see it & secondly that perhaps you would kindly advise me how to preserve & to have a fac-simile made of what I have uncovered, by photography or otherwise, & how to proceed towards any further possible discoveries

To these ends will you do me the favor to lunch here on Thursday next at 1 – & I would then shew you what I have uncovered

I say Thursday because I have asked Canon Jackson <2> to come here also on that day & to lunch because you are within driving distance but any other day after Thursday, save Monday 18th would suit me as well & Lady Hobhouse <3> & I would offer you a bed if that would suit you better

Faithfully yours
C. Hobhouse

Notes:

1. Ruins of a clunic cell to the priory of Lewes founded 1125.

2. John Edward Jackson (1805–1891), antiquary &author.

3. Lady Anna Maria Hobhouse, née Sawers.