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Document number: 10055
Date: 14 Jun 1845
Recipient: BROUGHAM Henry Peter
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: University College London - Special Collections
Collection number: Brougham 27.177
Last updated: 15th June 2009

31 Sackville St.
14 June

Dear Ld Brougham


The H. of Commons referred the 3 following railways to the same committee

1. Wilts & Somerset
2. Bristol & Exeter branches
3. Southampton and Dorchester

No 1 is the railway which affects my property
No 2 Ly G. Fane,s

We think it highly desirable that these bills should be all referred to the same committee of the Lords.

Would you support this?

We wish the Committee to have a full view of the subject, and the merits & also the demerits of the schemes cannot be well understood without reference to the others, which altogethr embrace a vast railway system in the counties of Wilts, Somerset, and Dorset.

The House of Commons evidently, by referring them to the same committee, showed its opinion to be that they ought to be judged of in connexion with each other.

Yours most truly
H. Fox Talbot

The Committee on No 1 is already named, they meet next Tuesday

No 3 has past [sic] Second Reading & is waiting for the Committee to be named

No 2 is a few days behind the others, it is waiting for second reading.

[address panel:]
Ld Brougham
4 Grafton St.

[added in another hand]
1845 Mr Talbot

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