L. abbey
20^th Nov^r

My Dear Henry

It was lucky for you that you went away when you did for it has been perpetual fog ever since, owing I suppose to the subsiding of the waters. Knowing how such a muggy atmosphere discomposes you I rejoice in your absence. There is no news for you from hence, except that I have caught a violent rhumatism [sic] from standing out in the damp seeing them plant trees under the shade of which I shall never sit, but then I think your children may, which consoles me. a letter from M^r M. ^<1> tells us he is in a state something between an oyster & a Polypus, & that the horse he recommended was sold before he got M^r F's ^<2> answer, which he laments as it was as clever an animal as ever went for 50 G^s No Letters are come for you but the one that accompanies this - M^r F. arrives to night

aff^y y^rs
E F

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^r
Pixton

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Notes:

1. Probably Rev George Stephen Molyneux Montgomerie (1790-1850), close friend of Talbot family, artist, Rector of Garboldisham, near Thetford, Norfolk. [See Doc. No: 01613].

2. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780-1837), Royal Navy; WHFT's step-father.