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Document number: 06760
Date: Fri 23 Apr 1852
Dating: Horsman's tenure as MP
Harold White: 24 Apr 1853 [cannot be correct]
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Constance, née Mundy
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 21st August 2010

Lacock Abbey
Friday –

My dear Henry

I have received your letter & will be sure to send the carriage to meet you tomorrow evening – I have sent a message to Mr Gale<1> about the scheme of the Bathroom<2> & shall hope to get an answer from him tomorrow, but he is unaccountably slow. I am very glad that you think more favorably about improving the Library and shall be very pleased to talk it over with you some day soon – I hope it may not prove such an anxious or difficult undertaking as you seemed to anticipate –

I had read the debate on Mr Horsman’s<3> motion with much interest – I am glad he brought it forward – but is it possible that the matter can rest there?

Today our Times has failed – perhaps it may come tomorrow –

Yr affectionate
Constance.


Notes:

1. John Gale, carpenter at Lacock.

2. This was the first dedicated bath room (and an interior one at that!) at Lacock Abbey - see Doc. No: 06574 and Doc. No: 06612.

3. Rt Hon Edward Horsman (d 1876), MP for Cockermouth from February 1836 till July 1852. He was then the unsuccessful candidate and subsequently sat for Stroud from June 1853-December 1868. His motion was to petition the Queen to challenge the appointment of a new Vicar in the nearby village of Frome by the Marchioness of Bath. It failed one first reading, but the debate went on for months.