Chippenham <1>
Friday Night
Dear Sir/
The enclosed Receipts were presented to me for Payment yesterday & I took them as Cash, in order to pass the Collectors Accounts for the day – if there should be any thing incorrect in the Charge, the Collectors will make it right –
I am happy to report that I have let the House next to the Red Lion <2> – to an old & respectable Tenant of your (Mrs Barton) She is to give £10– Pr Annum & if any repairs are wanted to do them herself – I believe she wants it for one of her Sons –
I am Dear Sir
yr much obliged Sert
W. H. Awdry
W. H. F. Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey
Notes:
1. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.
2. The Red Lion Inn, Lacock.