16 Great Queen St
Nov 20th 1847
Sir/
I forward the list of the plates I have of yours & the invoice for the same together with Miss Fieldings [sic] & the Late Lady Elizabeths [sic]. if you could let me have the amount of them with your Cheque, I should feel very much obliged, for money is very difficult to procure, & they have been standing so long. If any convenience to you I will keep them, here, but I Move shortly after Xmas so I thought that you would have them sent to Mr Henneman. All these plates are mounted so that I have paid for the boards long since
I am Sir Yours Obedy
Alfred Tarrant
H F Talbot Esqre
[invoice:]
H. F. Talbot Esqre
TO ALFRED TARRANT,
BOOKBINDER,
PORTFOLIO & GUARD BOOK MANUFACTURER,
16, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS.
1847
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2007 Plates Pencil of Nature Mtd 8,, 7,, 3
do Boards for do 12,,10,,10
£20,,18,,1
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22 Large Doorway
46 Cloisters
60 do with Figure
29 Heriotts Hospital
40 Leaf
59 Arch under College
21 Bridge
16 Haystack
30 Leaf of Book
28. Stable door
48 China
60 Glass
31 Heads
22 Book Shelves
268 Lace
73 River
108 Door of Westr Abbey
16 Ruins of Church
52 Battery
25 Scotts Monument
15 Ship of war
90 Patroclus
80 Fruit
32 Abbotsford
90 of Plate 13
72 Ladder
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113 Outlines
101 Chopping Wood
77 Figures with Fruit &c
283. [sic] I do not know the names of but various
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2007 Plates –
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H.F. Talbot Esqre
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham