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Document number: 2585
Date: 07 Feb 1833
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: CARTER Thomas
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA33(MW)-015
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Chippenham <1>

Feby 7th 1833

Honble Sir/

With due deference, I most humbly beg to remind you, that on the 23rd June last your Honor was pleased to inform my by Letter, <2> that should you procure a Seat in Parliament you would your <sic> Influence to procure me an Appointment in the Customs, I most humbly assure your Honor I have been waiting with the greatest possible anxiety for the promised Appointment, more especially that I and my numerous Family (eight in number) are at this present time in the greatest state of destitution from my having no employment for this last eighteen Months; my last appointment was Supervisor in the Eccise <sic> with a Salary and emoluments about 130 £ pr ann. and have held Appointments in the Eccise as Officer and Supervisor for 19 years, and I humbly presume your Honor is aware, that I can be most strongly recommended by the most influential Gents and other electors in your Honors interest if necessary the whole of them. I therefore most humbly solicit your Honors immediate kind intercession with any Lord or Lords of his Majestys Treasury for any Appointment in the Customs such as Landing Waiter &c. &c. and should I be so favored, permit me most humbly to assure your Honor that it will ever be remembered with the greatest gratitude and esteem

By Your Honors
most devoted & Obedt Servant

Thomas Carter

The Honble H. F. Talbot M.P.
31 Sackville Street
London


Notes:

1. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.

2. Letter not located.