TALBOT7614

Chippenham ¹

24 April 1858

Dear Sir,

I enclose a Note just arrived from M^r Williams requesting to be allowed to complete his examination of your <Muniment?> Room, I think one morning will suffice for this –

I presume you have not yet heard of the Arrival of your Trustees in Town – My Examination before the Ho: of Lords was completed on Thursday afternoon

Yours obliged

West Awdry

H F. Talbot Esq

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Lincolns Inn Fields

April 23. 1858

My dear Sir,

I was detained yesterday in Consultation at Westminster so late that I did not come back to Chambers –

I return your List of Deeds – but as the Case now stands adjourned until Monday Week– & until the evidence is printed our Counsel will not decide what further evidence should be put in, I am unable to say whether I shall have to trouble you to come up again.

The Evidence will be printed on Tuesday or Wednesday – & we shall then immediately decide what further Evidence shall be adduced by us.

In the mean time I should be glad to have the opportunity of inspecting the miscellaneous papers at Laycock – & should be much obliged if you would ascertain from M^r Fox Talbot on what day (including Wednesday) it would be Convenient for me to come down. If he could name Monday– & you would send me a telegram to–morrow I would come down by the Express Train – so as to be at Laycock about 1 ocl:

I am My dear Sir Yours very truly

<illegible> Williams.

West Awdry Esq