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Document number: 02223
Date: 14 Aug 1828
Postmark: 1828
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: GAISFORD Henrietta Horatia Maria, née Feilding
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA28-54
Last updated: 25th January 2012

[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Lady Elisabeth: Doc. No: 01701]

Laycock abbey
14th August

Carissimo Enrico <1>

I was very glad to hear you had arrived safe at Calais – it was very good of you to write as you had promised. I hope you have better weather than we. – it has not ceased raining hardly since we have been here, however our garden is very pretty – the Tyger Lily is beautiful, it flowers almost every day – I have got 4 Lobelia fulgens in bloom, and 2 Dahlias – & several yellow Coreopsis – There are several pretty things in your botanical garden – Chelone barbata – Coreopsis grandiflora – a pink flower that Caroline found at Pćstum, something like endive. Campanula allarifolia – Epilobium angustifolium – The field of Dahlias near our garden is in great beauty – there are a great many double ones – You cannot think how nice our two rooms are: mine has a very pretty pink paper – & C’s a green & white one. I am going to-day to Bowood <2> for 2 days to cure my cough.

Addio fratello carissimo <3>, pray write me a long letter, with an account of all you are doing, & I will tell you in return all about Blandford Races <4>, if we go.

Your very affte sister
Horatia

Monsr
Monsieur Henri Fox Talbot
Poste Restante
Genčve
en Suisse


Notes:

1. Dearest Henry.

2. Bowood House, nr Calne, Wiltshire, 5 mi NE of Lacock: seat of the Marquess of Lansdowne.

3. Goodbye dearest brother.

4. By 1603 a ‘Race Week’ had been established at Monkton Down and the ‘Blandford Races’, as they had become, continued until 1894.