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Document number: 04450
Date: 07 Mar 1842
Recipient: TALBOT Constance, née Mundy
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA(H)42-1
Last updated: 21st December 2010

London
March 7. 1842

My dear Constance

I received the Litry Gazette <1> from Mr Moore <2> all safe. What induced my mother to mention it to him again?

I am coming home tomorrow as I mentioned in my note <3> of yesterday which I hope you received.

I called on Aunt Matilda <4> today, & afterwards by her desire went & made acquaintance with Chevalier Bunsen <5> the Prussian Ambassador - he told me that the Prussian government were going to send Professor Lepsius <6> to explore the antiquities of Egypt, and that the Professor was very desirous of taking Calotype views there, if he only knew how - I replied<7> that I would send him the printed directions and that if he did not mind the trouble of coming over from Berlin, I should be happy to see him at Lacock & try to make him a proficient in the art.

Your affte
Henry

Notes:

1. The Literary Gazette and Journal of belles lettres, science and art.

2. Thomas Moore (1780-1852), Irish poet.

3. Not located.

4. Matilda Feilding (1775-1849), WHFT's 'aunt' - sister of Charles Feilding, his stepfather.

5. Chevalier Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1761-1860), German diplomat and scholar; Prussian Ambassador in London from 1841-1854; created Freiherr von Bunsen in 1857.

6. Dr Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884), German Egyptologist. From 1842 to 1845 he led the Prussian Expedition to Egypt and Nubia.

7. Reply not yet located.