TALBOT1761

[The letter is in the BL and its envelope is in the NMeM.]

London
Dec^r 19^th

Dear Talbot

By the next waggon you will receive a box of old painted glass ¹ of I believe pretty good quality – of which I beg your acceptance in the hope that you will find some corner it will suit at Laycock. I procured it some time ago from an old church at Beauvais thinking it might answer for my chapel at Bowood ² but could not get enough – besides which it will find itself much more at home in an abbey –

yours ever truly
Lansdowne

We are just setting of [sic] for Bowood –

[envelope:]
London December nineteenth 1828
H. Fox Talbot
Esq
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham