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Document number: 02287
Date: Wed 10 Dec 1828
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA28-104
Last updated: 24th January 2012

[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Horatia: Doc. No: 01750]

Laycock Abbey
Mercredi 10 Décembre <1>

It is not much to be regretted parting with S – as I will tell you; but I hate boring you with Parish business <2> when you are at a distance & yet perhaps it is better so than when at home for it would be sad if home was identified with plagues & bores & disagreeable ideas.

Betty <3> came yesterday, we invited her to spend a Month or two – She is very well & wishes much to see you.

Let me know what day you will be in London that I may send my commissions

Notes:

1. Wednesday 10 December.

2. See Doc. No: 01742.

3. Elizabeth Vickery ‘Betty’, WHFT’s governess, who died in 1835. WHFT paid to have a gravestone placed at Cutcombe, Somerset, inscribed: 'Erected to the Memory of Elizbth Vickery his kind & faithful nurse by Henry Fox Talbot of Lacock Abbey in the country of Wilts Esqre'; the stone's inscription is still readable - See Doc. No: 03205.