Chippenham
3 Nov. 1868
Dear Sir,
I have remitted £125ּ to your Son’s 1 Bankers at Melksham and have paid £80 – for half years Interest due on £4000ּ for which I enclose a receipt, and will remit £700ּ to Messrs Coutts & Co 2 for your credit by tonights post. All my family except myself felt the Earthquake on Friday night. I was very tired and had retired earlier than usual, and must have been asleep at the moment of the shock – it seems to have been felt very generally in England I have heard of it from friends in Surry & Shropshire – and I see many notices of it in the Papers. I little thought when we were talking of what had happened in Peru, how near a similar phænomena was approaching us though happily in so mitigated a form.
I remain
Yours obliged
West Awdry
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