TALBOT8603

Chippenham
27 Sep. 1862

Dear Sir,

My Brother has asked me to request a renewal of your permission to shoot at In-Wood this Season – He will feel much obliged to you if you can grant it – I have a note from Captⁿ Gladstone ¹ this evening about the question of the piece of Ground at the bottom of Bowden Hill for the erection of a Parsonage House – He is at present in N. Wales where he has been laid up with a feverish attack but hopes to be well enough to get home shortly to talk to you (if at home) or me about it. I think he will take the Cottage & Garden together as I proposed to him – Have you any wish to purchase the farm at Nash Hill adjoining yours, belonging to M^r Starky ²? I understand £5000 is asked for it – it is very poor – I am aware you want a narrow strip to make a better road between it and your farm but I hear to-day that the farm is for sale – and has been offered to Captⁿ Gladstone – if he sho^d purchase it I dare say he would spare the strip you require. I will enquire from them about it.

I remain Your obliged
West Awdry.

H F. Talbot Esq

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H. F. Talbot Esq
Millburn
Edinburgh