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Document number: 6346
Date: 16 Aug 1850
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: PINCH Charles
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 20622
Last updated: 29th December 2010

Bath Augt 16th 50

Sir

I beg to apologize for troubling you but when I received your last letter May 15th 50 you stated that Mrs Thomas Gaisford <1> was expected home from abroad in July and then you would be kind enough to shew her my letter I sent you dated May 14th 1850 perhaps you will do me the favor of sending the letter and the account to her viz £6.16.6

if she is not yet arrived in England -

I am Sir Your most Obed Sert
Charles Pinch<2>

To H F Talbot Esqre

21 Henrietta Street.

[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Barrow House
Keswick
Cumberland


Notes:

1. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810-1851), WHFT's half-sister. She had died from complications of childbirth a few days before this letter, on 9 August.

2. Although this signature is quite indistinct, the identity is clarified by WHFT's annotation of 'Pinch' on the envelope. There was a James Pinch, architect, at this address in the Bath Post Office Directory and presumably Charles was a brother or other relative.