Chippenham <1>
Saturday Eve
Sir
I have met a few of the Freemen this Evening who are Friends to Reform, <2> and as there are several of them whom you have not seen, I beg to inform you that I intend calling on you at Lacock Abbey, with two or three others on Monday Morning next at half past 10 o’clock, – should this hour not suit you, will you have the goodness to fix some other hour –
I remain Sir Your very obed Servt
Wm Wilmot. Junr
H. F. Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey
Notes:
1. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.
2. On 23 March 1831 the first parliamentary reform bill had passed its second reading by one vote.