Chippenham <1>
24 April 1858
Dear Sir,
I enclose a Note just arrived from Mr Williams requesting to be allowed to complete his examination of your <Muniment?> Room, I think one morning will suffice for this –
I presume you have not yet heard of the Arrival of your Trustees in Town – My Examination before the Ho: of Lords was completed on Thursday afternoon
Yours obliged
West Awdry
H F. Talbot Esq
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Lincolns Inn Fields
April 23. 1858
My dear Sir,
I was detained yesterday in Consultation at Westminster so late that I did not come back to Chambers –
I return your List of Deeds – but as the Case now stands adjourned until Monday Week– & until the evidence is printed our Counsel will not decide what further evidence should be put in, I am unable to say whether I shall have to trouble you to come up again.
The Evidence will be printed on Tuesday or Wednesday – & we shall then immediately decide what further Evidence shall be adduced by us.
In the mean time I should be glad to have the opportunity of inspecting the miscellaneous papers at Laycock – & should be much obliged if you would ascertain from Mr Fox Talbot on what day (including Wednesday) it would be Convenient for me to come down. If he could name Monday– & you would send me a telegram to–morrow I would come down by the Express Train – so as to be at Laycock about 1 ocl:
I am My dear Sir Yours very truly
<illegible> Williams.
West Awdry Esq
Notes:
1. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.