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Document number: 7653
Date: 24 Jun 1858
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: AWDRY West
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: Acc 20993 [envelope only]
Last updated: 1st May 2012

Chippenham <1>
24 June 1858

Dear Sir,

I have received £121– from Captn Gladstone <2> to pay for the Cottage & Garden at Bowden Hill (including £1– for ¼ Yrs Rent from Lady day to the present time) and have remitted the same to your Bankers Messrs Coutts <3>– as you desired – Mr Starkey <4> has promised to give me an answer about granting you a Lease of a strip of Land at Nethermore, next week, He seems to prefer this plan to an exchange – but I will let you know the result as soon as possible –

I am Dear Sir Your Obliged Sert
West Awdry

H. F. Talbot Esq

[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey

Notes:

1. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.

2. Captain John Neilson Gladstone (1807–1863), MP.

3. Lady Day is one of the traditional English quarter days, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, on 25 March. Coutts & Company, bankers, London.

4. Probably misspelling of John Starky, of Spye Park, Bronham.

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