TALBOT3608

Salisbury
22 Feb^ry 1837

Dear Talbot

Here is a small living in your gift. – If you think it worth while, looking after – & not parting with it, till you have yourself ascertain’d the value, I should be most happy to see you at the Canonry – & to shew you the Pictures, which I shew’d Lady Valetort, ¹ & which I had Painted, to illustrate my history of Lacock.

If you have not determin’d on whom to bestow them this living, & are at a loss about a Possessor, (which is not indeed very likely) – I can recommend an Excellent young Man, by the name of Macrae,² well known here – a popular preacher, & who would be of great advantage to the parish. – At all events I should be most happy to see your [sic] here, where you will be sure of a Knife & fork, & [illegible deletion] a kind canonical hospitality, as long as you stay – & believe me,

always yours truly
W. L. Bowles

Henry Talbot Esq^r
Lacock Abbey Chippenham
31. Sackville Street
London