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Document number: 5854
Date: 21 Jan 1847
Postmark: 21 Jan 1847
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BOLTON John Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 20259
Collection number historic: LA47-12
Last updated: 22nd June 2010

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].

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