TALBOT6501

Rev^d R. Cattermole

Lacock Abbey, Chippenham

Jan^y 18.49

D^r Sir

On looking through my accounts I perceive that I have omitted through some mistake to read you the amount due from me to the Royal Society of Literature, as composition for annual subscriptions – Not having at hand at this moment a memorandum of the exact <?> which I remember is between 20£ and 30£, I must request you to draw on Coutts’s bank in the Strand for the correct amount. I have written to them by today’s post accordingly. Be so good as to excuse this trouble, and believe me to remain

Yours very truly

W.H.F. Talbot

Composition £21.0.

Admission Fee £ 3.3.

£24.3.