Lincolns Inn <1>
21st <2> Jany 1847
Dear Sir
An accountant named McMaken is a proper person to be sent to Reading to investigate your agents accounts. <3>
His terms are 2Gs per diem <4> and his expences of living & travelling &c and is willing to go on Tuesday or any subsequent day that may suit you.
Yours very truly
J. H. Bolton
[envelope]
W. H. Fox Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. One of the four Inns of Court, the ‘colleges’ of barristers at the English Bar. Bolton had his chambers [lawyer’s offices and, at the time, living-quarters also] there.
2. Written over 22nd.
3. Talbot was dissatisfied with the manager of his photographic print-making business in Reading, Benjamin Cowderoy (1812–1904), land agent in Reading; business manager for WHFT; later a politician in Australia. See Doc. No: 05802 for Cowderoy’s comments, and his stated readiness to meet a accountant from London.
4. Two guineas per day. A guinea was 21 shillings [there were 20 shillings to the Pound].