Lincolns Inn <1>
12th Sept 1851
My dear Sir
The Probate of Your late sister’s <2> will is in my possession –
As this is the season only that we can devote to our accounts I take the liberty to enclose Yours to the present time which includes the costs of obtaining the Probate and the Proctors <3> Bill for same viz £12.14. 6.
I have also included in the bill, our charges for making it which strictly does not belong to You but which, I make not the least doubt You will not object to.
Believe me to remain
My dear Sir
Ever Your’s faithfully
J.H Bolton
To H. Fox Talbot Esqr
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. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.
3. A solicitor who dealt with probate.