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Document number: 00263
Date: Mon 21 Jul 1834
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA34(MW)-109
Last updated: 23rd January 2012

[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Capt Feilding - see Doc. No: 02960]

Hotel Rignolles
Monday

My Dearest Henry

The salt water of which I was liberally covered with the Spray to day has not washed off my tender remembrances of the abbey I wish it had as while I think so much of it & cast so many lingering looks behind <1> at it, I shall not enjoy what is before me so much. Our table is at this moment spread with the same white china & reminds me again if I was inclined to forget

H. Fox Talbot Esqre M.P.
Angleterre
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

1. ‘Nor cast one longing lingering look behind’. Thomas Gray, Elegy written in a Country Churchyard (1751).