Chippenham <1>
3 May 1861
Dear Sir,
I have remitted £300- to your Account at Messrs Coutts <2> – £300 to the Bank of Scotland at Edinburgh £100 to Messrs Mortlock & Co for your Son – £60 to Mrs Talbots <3> A/c at the Melksham Bk. Mr Gilchrist Clarks <4> payment will not be due till next month.
I have sent you a Devizes Paper containing a Report of the Seend Iron Mines which I think will interest you.
Your faithfl & oblig
West Awdry.
H. F. Talbot Esq–Notes:
1. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.
2. Coutts & Company, bankers, London.
3. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.
4. John Gilchrist-Clark (1830–1881), Scottish JP; WHFT’s son-in-law.