TALBOT8824

Stockton
6 May 1864

Dear Sir

I was duly favored with your note, ¹ and had purposed replying to it in person yesterday, but I found myself unable to do so, being obliged to return by the 2 o’clock Express –

My Co-trustees and I, however, made such arrangements as will I hope have fully met your wishes, and enabled you to enter the house temporarily today.

I am Dear Sir Yours faithfully
Jos^h Dodds

H. Fox Talbot Esq^r
13 Great Stuart S^t
Edinburgh

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esq
13 Great Stuart St
Edinburgh