TALBOT5378

Worthen Salop
Sept 1. 1845

My dear Sir

By this Post I am communicating your wishes to M^r Ward ¹, but I fear that the limitation of the Powers of the Act being limited to a certain Space, & the double Curve, will make it difficult to comply with them; besides that the arrangements to be made for crossing roads &c seem to be data required previously to laying out the Line –

At all events I c^d not at a distance from home venture to hope that any farther attempts on my part to mediate w^d lead to the satisfaction of both parties – or to be certain that I might not over-step my Authority. With great regret therefore at the results of this luckless Error of the Ordnance Map on the Faith of which M^r Brunel ² acted,

I remain Y^rs very faithfully
J W Awdry