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Document number: 2488
Date: 01 Dec 1832
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: KING William Read
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA32-078
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Serjeants Inn
Fleet St

1st Decr 1832

Dear Sir,

There will be an express power to enable the Trustees, by your direction, to sell the whole or any part of the settled Estates, & therefore the Settlements will enable you shod a desireable <sic> opportunity occur to sell the Abbey etc. The proceeds will of course have to be invested in the Trustees names on the purchase of other Estates to be conveyed to the Uses of the Settlement & ’till such purchase the money wod be <sic> to be invested in the funds.

I wrote to you yesterday in answer to your Letter of Sunday & addressed it to Markeaton <1> from whence it will of course be forwarded to you. –

I am Dr Sir yours faithfully

W. R. King

W. H. Fox Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

1. Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire, NW of Derby: home of the Mundy family.

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