TALBOT8763

[multiple authors]¹

Lacock –
December – 1863.

Dear M^r Talbot,

We whose names are attached to this note have heard that a Memorial from the parish has been addressed to you with reference to the vacancy created by the death of M^r Paley. ²

We have not added our names to that Memorial, lest we should even remotely appear to be interfering with your private discretion and judgment on the matter –

But as our silence might be interpreted as indifference we venture to say privately, that if it should prove acceptable to your own views to appoint M^r Blomfield, ³ we thoroughly share the unanimous feeling, that such an appointment would be most conducive to the benefit, and well being of the Parish.

J W Awdry
H: B: Caldwell
H G Awdry
H. A. Merewether–

with Miss Gladstone’s
sanction / H. A. M –