Monkton. <1>
Chippenham
8 May /66
Dear Sir,
I have made your Return for Assessed Taxes agreeably with your last letter – I have remitted Messrs Coutts & Co <2> the further Sum of £510ּ which with 400ּ went to Edinburgh 110 to Melksham <3> & 80 – for ½ Yrs Intts on 4000 makes £1100ּ I hope your Cold is better – I have just been at Lacock where all is well.
I am Yours obliged
West Awdry
I see Mr Gladstone <4> proposes to make a Sandwich of us, between Calne <5> & Malmesbury –Notes:
1. Monkton House, Chippenham, Wiltshire: Awdry family home.
2. Coutts & Company, bankers, London.
3. Melksham, Wiltshire: market town near Lacock, 2 miles S.
4. Probably Captain John Neilson Gladstone (1807–1863), MP.
5. Calne, Wiltshire, 5 mi NE of Lacock.