TALBOT5937

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3 Mansfield S^t
May 5/47

Harrison

I am very willing to continue your engagement on the same terms, for 3 months at a time, that is, giving 3 months notice on either side you to pay the expenses wages [of] two boys as at present, or if they are not employed the amount to be deducted.

I propose that you should fill the office of shopman in Regent Street and keep the daily accounts there, lending a hand occasionally in the other parts of the business which you are acquainted with. I should wish to discontinue your brother’s services at present (from not having enough employment for him) but should be very willing to take him again, if Henneman’s business increases so as to require it. Please to deliver to M^r Telfer the books of the Establishment at Reading and the vouchers and correspondence, to take with him to London.

I intend to close the Reading Establishment ¹ but not to [part] with the house at present, because I have no place to which I could remove the glass house, & [the] bookcases, shelves, & other fixtures – I have endeavoured, but without success, to find suitable premises in the outskirts of London. I have commissioned M^r Telfer to converse with you on the subject of my letter which will save me the necessity of writing at greater length

Yours
H. F. Talbot