Lincoln’s Inn <1>
14 May 1868
My dear Sir
I enclose you a late demand of this firm for Your presentation of the Rev Mr Nichol <2> which has never been copied until now – and I hope I am right in thinking that You did not mean that he has was to pay for it –
It seems so long a time since I have been favoured with a visit, that You have quite forgotten
My dear Sir Ever Your’s faithfully
J H Bolton
W H Fox Talbot Esq
[envelope:]
Wm. H. Fox Talbot Esqre
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
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. Talbot, as patron of the living of Lacock, had presented it to Rev Edward Powell Nicholl (1831–1902), Vicar of Lacock from 1864 until his resignation in 1870; photographer in 1864 [see Doc. No: 08800].