Revd R. Cattermole
Lacock Abbey, Chippenham
Jany 18.49
Dr Sir
On looking through my accounts I perceive that I have omitted through some mistake to read you the amount due from me to the Royal Society of Literature, as composition for annual subscriptions – Not having at hand at this moment a memorandum of the exact <?> which I remember is between 20£ and 30£, I must request you to draw on Coutts’s bank in the Strand for the correct amount. I have written to them by today’s post accordingly. Be so good as to excuse this trouble, and believe me to remain
Yours very truly
W.H.F. Talbot
Composition £21.0.
Admission Fee £ 3.3.
£24.3.