TALBOT5128

18 Duke S^t
23 Dec^r 1844

Dear Sir

I trust we shall be able to shew you that the injury you anticipate to your property can either be Mitigated by some modification of the line ¹ or at the worst that it is of a nature Susceptible of compensation – even the Removal of a farmhouse if it were necessary is after all but a question of money and if rendered necessary by Severance the Company ² is liable – I can assure you that I adopted the line which all things considered appeared to me the least destructive – but after the bustle of the Parliamentary notices after the 31 Inst. we shall have more time to enter upon the question

I am dear Sir Very truly yours
I K Brunel

To the Honorab^le
H Fox Talbot

Laycock Abbey – Chippenham