TALBOT1966

Chippenham ¹
3^d March 1830

Dear Sir /

I have this Morning rec^d your favor of the 1^st Ins^t & as soon as I get the Map from M^r Darley ², will attend to your instructions about it – –

I am just going into Yorkshire for a few days & have desired my Son ³ to enclose the Prospectus of the Lacock Society & your Book from Mess^rs Gundrey & C^{o 4} in a Parcel, to the care of Lady Eliz^{th 5} at the Abbey – I hope, in time to convey it to Town –– the Printer has been very much occupied lately with Bills for Sales in the Neighbourhood which has prevented his doing the Prospectus sooner –

I earnestly hope that it may not be necessary for the Parish to employ able bodied Labourers another year – but if it should, I think they would gladly embrace the Proposal w^ch you mention –

I am Dear Sir y^r obliged Ser^t
W. H. Awdry

W. H. F. Talbot Esq