Chippenham ^<1>
31 Aug^t 1858

Dear Sir,

I have remitted £500Ì to Mess^rs Coutts & C^{o <2>} for your credit and enclose a note for your signature. My Brother desires me to thank you for your kind permission to shoot over your Manor. I am expecting to see M^r Hodding to-day or tomorrow – and will mention M^r Cotterells application. I am afraid his Client is “non est inventus”– ^<3>

Your obliged Ser^t
West Awdry

H. F. Talbot Esq.

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

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Notes:

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

2. Coutts & Company, bankers, London.

3. The return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county.