Mr W. Snow Harris begs to return Mr & Mrs Talbot <1> his best acknowledgments for their kind invitation: and will have much pleasure in spending a few days with them during the week previous to the Meeting of the British Association at Bristol in August next <2>
Mr Harris hopes therefore to have the pleasure of being at Lacock Abbey on the 16h or 17h of August.
July 25th 1836
32 Union Street
Plymouth
Notes:
1. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811-1880), WHFT's wife.
2. WHFT invited a number of savants to stay at Lacock Abbey before the 1836 meeting of British Association for the Advancement of Science. In addition to William Snow Harris, Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist & journalist, Prof Charles Babbage (1792-1871), mathematician & inventor, Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), scientist, Dr Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), scientific writer, and Rev William Whewell (1794-1866), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor and natural philosopher assembled at Lacock Abbey 16-17 August, leaving at various times for the meeting, which began 22 August.