Chippenham
10 April 1865
Dear Sir,
I have remitted to Messrs Coutts & Co <1> £50Ì to be placed to your Account. I have also paid £420Ì to the Govr of [Queen’s Anne?] Bounty for the purchase of the old Vicarage – for which I will ask you for a Security upon Your return to the Abbey.
I remain Your’s obliged
West Awdry
H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey.
Notes:
1. Coutts & Company, bankers, London.