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Middle Hill

29 Aug 46

My dear Sir

I shall be extremely glad if you would send over one of your assistants & as the weather I think is now likely to clear up we shall have more Sun.

You are now only 18 miles from me & a Coach runs every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday, from the Crown Inn Cheltenham (opposite Lea’s Library) & reaches Broadway in 3 hours, or 2½. If your Assistant could come tomorrow Evening (the Coach leaves Cheltenham about 4 or ½ past 4) he could return on Tuesday Morning, if you wanted him.

I should be glad to buy one of your Apparatus, if any are to be sold, & if so, the Assistant could bring it with him, by Stevens’s Broadway Coach from the Crown Inn.

Believe me My dear Sir Very truly Your’s
Thos Phillipps

Henry Fox Talbot, Esqr

Oriel Lodge
Cheltenham

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Henry Fox Talbot Esq^re
Oriel Lodge Cheltenham.

MH 19 Aug 46

My d^r Sir

I shall be extremely glad if you w^d send over one of your Assistants & as the weather I think is likely to clear up we shall have more Sun. You are now only 18 miles from me, & a Coach runs every Tuesday Thursday & Saturday from the Crown Inn Cheltenham, (opposite Leas' Library) & reaches Broadway in 3 hours or 2 1/2 If y^r Assistant c^d come tomorrow Evening (the Coach leaves Cheltenham about 4 or 1/2 past 4) he c^d return on Tuesday if you wanted him.

I should be glad to buy one of y^r apparatus, if any were to be sold, & if so, the Assistant could bring it with him by Stevens's Coach from the Crown Inn.

Believe me my d^r Sir Very truly yours
TP.