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Document number: 7685
Date: 27 Aug 1858
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: AWDRY West
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 21017
Last updated: 9th July 2010

Chippenham <1>
27 Aug. 1858

Dear Sir,

How shall I pay the £500Ì you wished to have about this time? I expect to receive it on Monday next. My Brother begs me to ask for your permission to shoot over your Manor this season, as you have kindly allowed him to do hitherto –

I was sorry to read the Enclosed paragraph in the Wiltshire paper the other day – though others will no doubt profit by it –

I am dear Sir Your obliged Sert
West Awdry

[enclosure – newspaper clipping:]

he has been convicted for a similar offence. WESTBURY .– THE IRON WORKS. – We regret to have to state that the tower furnaces erected for smelting the iron ore having cracked so much as to be rendered useless, they will have to be pulled down and re-built. The cracking has arisen from using the furnaces before they were sufficiently dried and seasoned to the heat. The delay in the operations of the company during the re-building, will be more serious than the cost of their re-erection. A little north country experience should be imported into the concern, and then such untoward mishaps would be avoided.

H. F. Talbot Esq

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

Notes:

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

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