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Document number: 6659
Date: 11 Jul
Dating: before Iford Manor was sold in 1858
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: GAISFORD Thomas
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 9th February 2011

My dear Talbot

My bankers here sent the enclosed paper wh needs the signature of my trustees, to enable them to credit me with £300 a year received as pin-money, together with arrears of the same now in the banker’s hands – Will you be so good as to sign it.

I hope that you will come to Iford<1> in the course of the month while the fine weather lasts, my mother<2> wd begs me to say that if Mrs Talbot <3> wd dine early & drive home in the cool, we shall be at home except on Wednesday next.

Yrs affly
Gaisford

Iford July 11th


Notes:

1. Iford Manor, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, the residence of his father, Dr Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), Dean of Christchurch and Curator of the Bodlein Library.

2. This was actually his stepmother, Jane Catherine Gaisford, née Jenkyns (1787-1863), who had married his father in 1832. His biological mother was his father's 1st wife, Helen Margaret, née Douglas (1791-1831).

3. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (30 Jan 1811 - 9 Sep 1880), m. WHFT 20 Dec 1832.

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