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Document number: 01602
Date: 19 Oct 1827
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: THORP Thomas
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 17th January 2011

Dear Talbot.

I have just returned from Dover, & my fist act has been to repay to your account at Hammersley’s <1> the £20 you gave me to purchase your books in Germany, deducting £1 . 10 . 0 for two of them which I bought at Dresden, and which are coming along with some for myself: I will send them to you as soon as they arrive. – I was enabled to procure all the rest at Hamburg, and they will be forwarded to you by Black, Young & Young, to whom I have spoken today about it. I explained to you in a former note why I had not paid for them.<2> I am going to Cambridge tomorrow.

Yrs ever
T. Thorp

19 Oct. 1827

W. H. Fox Talbot Esqre
Athenĉum
Lacock Abbey <3>
Chippenham

Notes:

1. Hammersley & Company, bankers, London.

2. Black, Young, and Young, Tavistock Place, Covent Garden, London; booksellers specialising in imported German books and publisher of The Foreign Review, and Continental Miscellany. See also Doc. No: 01599.

3. Readdressed in another hand.