London

14 Jan^y 1846

W. H. F. Talbot Esq

Sir

We are favored with your Letter of yesterday and agreeably to your instructions have sold 10 Shrewsb & Birmingham shares as below stated – the proceeds of which we hold at your disposal – We have likewise in our hands £110 arising from the sale of your Paris & Lyons <Laffittes?> shares –

We are Sir Your most obed Servants

James Capel Norbury Trotter & Co ^<1>

Sold

10 Shrewsbury & Birmingham shares 2½ <illegible>

<col. aligned beneath 2½> 2 <illegible>

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4½ <illegible> <col. 2: £ s d> £45

Comm <shillings and pence> 12·6

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£44·7·6

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Notes:

1. stockbrokers ( Post Office Directory of London).