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Document number: 2299
Date: 13 Jan 1832
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: AWDRY William Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 2nd February 2012

Chippenham <1>
13th Jany 1832

Dear Sir,

I will take care to settle Mr Spencer’s <2> & John Gale’s <3> Accounts, in the way you mention –

With respect to the purchase of Mr Brindley’s Lease, I calculate that you would have had about £50 – to receive for delapidations, if the Lease had fallen into hand in regular course – This Sum being added to the purchase money (£100–) & other circumstances taken into consideration per Contra, I think it will be a harmless Bargain if Mr Hughes lives two years longer. He is now about 70 – & if I was to purchase an Annuity upon a Person’s Life of that Age, I hardly know of any one that I should prefer to him, without reference of to a Medical Certificate – I hope it may prove a very advantageous bargain to you in the end – There is another reason why I am glad that you purchased the Lease– As Mr Bindly [sic] was about to leave the place, it would probably have been let to any one rather than leave it vacant & being a very old House, if it had not been kept up, it would have been difficult to have reinstated it & it is now really a pretty thing at the entrance of the Village –

I am Dear Sir Yr obliged Servt
W. H. Awdry

W. H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey


Notes:

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

2. Dr Henry Spencer (1805-1842), surgeon in Chippenham.

3. John Gale, carpenter at Lacock.

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