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Messrs Goldney & FellowesSolicitors
Chippenham
London
March 4 /46
Dr Sirs
I have left the papers with my Solicitor – There is a great defect in the Agreement as there is being no Covenant in it to show a good title –
I therefore by desi my Solicitor’s desire return you the agreement signed by Mr Fussell, & request you to acknowledge the receipt thereof by return of post.
In a day or two my Solicitor will forward to you a draft of agreement prepared by himself, as he considers it ought to stand. I am in hopes this may be ready to be sent by tomorrow’s post.
I am willing to bear the expense of the ^conveyance & reconveyance to Mr Fussell, <illegible deletions> but no other expenses – but the expense of investigating the title ^I understand falls upon the seller.
We have received the draft conveyance, but I am ^desired to say to you that it is unusual to sent it until the title has been examined & approved.
With respect to Mr Fussell’s previous negotiation with the Company, we consider that we have nothing at all to do with it, and therefore we must entirely decline even to mention it in the Agreement with him.
Believe me
Dear Sirs
Yours truly
H. F. Talbot
P.S. I rather think there was something in the M.S. Memorandum which I left with you, which has not ^been embodied in your draft of an Agreement, have the goodness therefore to return it to me for my reperusal.<expanded version>
Messrs Goldney & FellowesSolicitors
Chippenham
London
March 4, 1846
Dear Sirs
I have left the papers with my Solicitor – There is a great defect in the Agreement as there is being no Covenant in it to show a good title – I therefore by desire my Solicitor’s desire return you the agreement signed by Mr Fussell, and request you to acknowledge the receipt thereof by return of post.
I am willing to bear the expense of the conveyance and reconveyance to Mr Fussell, <illegible> but no other expenses – but the expense of investigating the title I understand falls upon the seller.
We have received the draft conveyance, but I am desired to say to you that it is unusual to send it until the title has been examined & approved.
With respect to Mr Fussell’s previous negotiation with the Company, we consider that we have nothing at all to do with it, and therefore we must entirely decline even to mention it in the Agreement with him.
Believe me
Dear Sirs
Yours truly
H. F. Talbot
P.S. I rather think there was something in the manuscript Memorandum which I left with you, which has not been embodied in your draft of an Agreement, have the goodness therefore to return it to me for my reperusal.