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Catalogue description G. Talbot, London to FFT, Lyons, France Financial matters. Wished he had made a...
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| Reference: | DG39/1140 |
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G. Talbot, London to FFT, Lyons, France Financial matters. Wished he had made a balloon and flown from Lyons to London. The cost would have been £600 and the return £10,000. Knows Lunardi whom he describes as "lucky" and a "common cook". Both his and Blanchard's balloons on exhibit in London. One Sadler, a pastry cook from Oxford also has a balloon and is racing Blanchard across the Channel. Frost so bad that skaters were on St. James' Park Lake. |
| Date: | January 1785 |
| Held by: | Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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