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Document number: 2882
Date: 12 May 1834
Postmark: 12 May 1834
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: HARMAN Ezekiel
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: Acc 29586
Last updated: 27th October 2013

Dear Sir

I am very glad to find Mr Baker <1> has so kindly interested himself in the subject of our enquiry as very much of the success of our plan depends on the party at the head of the department so managing as to insure yours working well – it so happens that we have now two strings to our house having at last found out the very man so strongly recommended to me but who was said to be engaged when we met at Lacock – I made a point of seeing him and having some conversation the [illegible] of which is most favourable his testimonials undeniable and in short in almost every respect the very Man there is however no objecting to our having a double chance I wish I could run down to meet you as I am much interested in the completion of a good work

I have seldom met with a more desirable person he has a wife but no children who is ready to take her department he as well as his wife are much regretted at Waltham Abbey where he was to have been employed in a like department Thomas Shearn the person I allude to is between 30 & 40 and asks £40– pr annum

I am Dr Sir Yours most truly
Ez Harman

what are Government about to do surely the real interest of both the parishes & the poor will not be consulted by the adoption of their proposed measures it cannot, ought not, to pass in its present formBe good enough to frank the enclosed to Mr Thos Moore<2>

F. H. [sic] Talbot Esqre M.P.
Sackville Street
London


Notes:

1. Thomas John Lloyd Baker (1777–1841), High Sheriff.

2. Thomas Moore (possibly d. 1854), member of the Lacock Parish Vestry. As an MP, WHFT had franking privileges and was entitled to free postage. Members commonly gave signed covers or envelopes to friends. At the time, the recipient paid for postage (to ensure that the letter was delivered). This arrangement was withdrawn in January 1840 with the introduction of the Penny Post, which instituted uniform costs and pre-paid stamps.

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