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Document number: 08794
Date: 22 Jan 1864
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: AWDRY West
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA64-9
Last updated: 13th February 2012

Chippenham
22 Jan. 1864

Dear Sir,

I have paid Mr Blomfield <1> your own & Mrs Talbots <2> Subscriptions to the Schools – £10.–

and your annual
donation towards s15/–
warming the Church

though you did not expressly mention it in your Letter as I have paid it before for you. I have also paid (probably for the last time) your usual Christmas box – s10/– to poor old Hayward <3> who is now bed-ridden – I have remitted £150 to your Account at the Bank of Scotland <4> at Edinburgh as you request – tho’ Croker <5> is still something in arrear as usual I presume you have not yet decided any thing about the Living of Lacock.

I remain Yours obliged
West Awdry.

H. F. Talbot Esq.

Notes:

1. Arthur Blomfield (b. 1827), curate of Lacock.

2. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

3. Thomas Hayward (1781-1865?), former inn keeper in Chippenham, manual laborer, and pensioner - see Doc. No: 06568.

4. Archibald Kennedy, of the Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh.

5. Joseph Crocker, of Nash Hill.