Chippenham
27 Sep. 1862
Dear Sir,
My Brother has asked me to request a renewal of your permission to shoot at In-Wood this Season – He will feel much obliged to you if you can grant it – I have a note from Captn Gladstone <1> this evening about the question of the piece of Ground at the bottom of Bowden Hill for the erection of a Parsonage House – He is at present in N. Wales where he has been laid up with a feverish attack but hopes to be well enough to get home shortly to talk to you (if at home) or me about it. I think he will take the Cottage & Garden together as I proposed to him – Have you any wish to purchase the farm at Nash Hill adjoining yours, belonging to Mr Starky <2>? I understand £5000 is asked for it – it is very poor – I am aware you want a narrow strip to make a better road between it and your farm but I hear to-day that the farm is for sale – and has been offered to Captn Gladstone – if he shod purchase it I dare say he would spare the strip you require. I will enquire from them about it.
I remain Your obliged
West Awdry.
H F. Talbot Esq
[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esq
Millburn
Edinburgh
Notes:
1. Captain John Neilson Gladstone (1807–1863), MP.
2. John Bayntun Starky (b. 1834) of Spye Park.