TALBOT7304

Lincoln’s Inn ¹
17^th Oct 1856

Dear Sir

Henneman ² has been here and I have talked over with him the means he will have of repaying the £36.10 in case of your advising it – he engages to repay it out of certain monies he expects to receive frm a Captⁿ Mildmay ³ before his departure for India and a M^r Nicholson about to proceed to Egypt and other parties whom he has named who owe him money and at all counts to repay it before the 1^st Jan^y next.

I do not consider this engagement at all “satisfactory” tho’ it is the best he can enter into and it is not unlikely that if adverse circ^es intervene his intentions may be intercepted – there is however no hostile appearance as yet from any quarter – Leslie talks of writing to You about his Gas apparatus but he has made no application to me – Henneman told him before the House was sold ⁴ (with my consent) that he might remove the fittings but he did not think proper to avail himself of it.

believe me to remain
My dear Sir
Yours very truly

J. H Bolton

I have admitted a Gentleman who served his articles to me & whom I have known from his infancy into partnership – his name is Filder – I hope it will not be long before You afford me the opportunity to introduce him personally. If I do not hear from You to the contrary I shall pay Higgs Sol^r the £36.10 and take a discharge in full, not letting them know that it is Your payments, ⁵ for otherwise You would be dunned by all the rest of H’s creditors.

J. H B

W^m H. Fox Talbot Esq^e

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W^m H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
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