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Document number: 4045
Date: 28 Feb 1840
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: PEARSON Hugh Nicolaas
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 20181
Collection number historic: LA40-26
Last updated: 28th June 2010

Brighton,
Feb: 28. 1840.

The Dean of Salisbury <1> presents his Compliments to the High Sheriff, <2> I have much pleasure in Complying with his request that his Chaplain, the Revd E. H. Thompson, should preach in the Cathedral at the Ensuing Assizes. The Dean regrets that he cannot be present on that occasion.

[envelope:]
The
High Sheriff of Wilts
Lacock Abbey
Malmesbury

Notes:

1. Hugh Nicolas Pearson (1767–1856), Dean of Salisbury from 1823 to 1846.

2. WHFT was the High Sheriff of Wiltshire at the time.