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Document number: 2594
Date: 16 Feb 1833
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: AWDRY William Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA33(MW)-29
Last updated: 31st August 2010

Chippenham<1>
16th Feb. 1833

Dear Sir/

I have recd both your Letters of this Week & will lose no time in consulting with Captn Fielding<2> Mr Harman <3> & Thos Moore<4>, on the subject of letting Land to the Poor – it strikes me, that a sufficient quantity to enable each family to raise their Potatoes & other Vegetables, would answer best in every way & certainly at the commencemt of the Plan – as it would enable us to judge of the ability of the Parties to find manure for the Land & pay their Rent &c & when that is ascertained, then to increase the Quantity to such Persons as may be able & willing to cultivate it, instead of being relieved from the Poors [sic] Rate – All this, however, shall be fully discussed & I will report to you the opinions of all Parties, for your determination upon the subject –

I expect a good deal of opposition from the Farmers – as I believe they are in general opposed averse to the System upon any extended scale – but I hope we may be able to convince them, that in time it must reduce the Poors Rate – With respect to the Land to be taken for the purpose, I think it must be done equally from the four large Farms, as they have all got arable Land near to the Village & if it is an inconvenience to part with such – it should be borne by all in proportion – I have got some very good regulations for letting Land to the Poor in this way – on the Draycot Estates,<5> which having answered – I shall be able to recommend for adoption in the present instance* – I hope by the end of next Week to have seen the different Parties & to write to you again –

I am Dear Sir
Yr Obliged Sert
W. H. Awdry

P.S –
I have paid £80 to your Account at Gundrys<6>
The Circumstance you mention about Ring, shall be enquired into immedly
*I enclose you a Copy

W. H. F. Talbot Esq, M.P.
31. Sackville Street
Piccadilly
London


Notes:

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

2. Misspelling for Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.

3. Ezekiel Harman.

4. Thomas Moore (possibly d. 1854), member of the Lacock Parish Vestry.

5. Draycot House and Park, Draycot Cerne, near Chippenham, Wiltshire.

6. William Gundry, banker, Chippenham.

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