TALBOT2579

Chippenham ¹
1^st Feb^ry 1833

Dear Sir/

I am not aware at this moment that I have any particular Business upon which I need trouble you before you go to Town –

I am very glad to learn that you have again thought of the plan for letting Garden ground to the Poor, as I have little doubt of its advantages if extensively acted upon as I can not conceive anything so likely at present to alleviate the unfortunate state of the unemployed Poor & thereby diminish the Poor Rates also –

I will take care to have the Wicket Gate made & the other mended. –

If you should not have had leisure to look into M^r Paley’s Tythe Account, perhaps you will take it with your other Papers to Town & send it me from thence previous to Lady Day if you can make it convenient–²

I believe that the Poney will not exactly suit either of my Relatives –

I am Dear Sir Y^r obliged Ser^t
W. A. Awdry

W. H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey