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Document number: 2704
Date: 26 May 1833
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: PLIMMER George
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA33(MW)-92
Last updated: 16th December 2010

Melksham <1>
May 26th 1833

Sir/

In consequence of Mr Spencer <2> having left Lacock I have taken the liberty of soliciting you and if you are not engaged with medical attendant I shall feel obliged by your preference I shall be happy to refer you to Dr Brabant of Devizes<3> Dr Sainsbury Corsham<4> and Mr Norman of Bath all of whom are acquainted with my Practice in the hope of obtaining your confidence

I remain Sir Your most obedt Servt
Geo Plimmer

To H. F Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey

Notes:

1. Melksham, Wiltshire: market town near Lacock, 2 miles S.

2. Dr Henry Spencer (1805-1842), surgeon in Chippenham. [See Doc. No: 02703].

3. Dr Robert Herbert Brabant (1781-1866), of nearby Devizes. He became a close friend of the Talbot family. Fluent in German in Greek, he spent his life on an unfinished book intended to dispose of the supernatural element in religion. After his daughter's wedding in 1843, he is reported to have taken the virtue of Mary Ann Evans, the novelist better known as George Elliot, and may have been the model for Mr. Casaubon, the ineffectual scholar in her 1872 novel, Middlemarch.

4. Dr William Sainsbury (d. 1841).