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Document number: 5409
Date: Sun 12 Oct 1845
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Constance, née Mundy
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA45-136
Last updated: 9th February 2011

Lacock Abbey
Sunday – Oct 12.

My dear Henry

I have received both your letters <1> & think you very good to write two days following. I am very sorry for Lady Mary’s <2> anxieties – did she go to London to see the last of the Talbots? <3> – I am sorry she should ever pass us without stopping & think the journey must have been a great deal too long for her. Will you not ask her to rest herself at Lacock in her way back? – I am glad you were going to have such a comfortable dinner yesterday – but I thought Mr & Mrs C Jones <4> were gone home. I can easily believe she would express her sense of civilities received here in strong language – Did you not remark that such was her customary style! – however I am very glad she was pleased – I do long to see the Mount Edgcumbe <5> views – particularly the battery scene. – Last week I wrote to Lady Mary about a Cook who had lived with her – but I dare say she had left home before my letter arrived – I heard an excellent account of little Ernestine <6> today. –

Your affte
Constance.

Notes:

1. Letters not located.

2. Mary Thereza Talbot (1795–1861), WHFT’s cousin.

3. Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician; WHFT’s Welsh cousin; and his wife, Lady Charlotte, nιe Butler (1809–1846).

4. Rev Calvert Richard Jones (1802–1877), Welsh painter & photographer.

5. Mt Edgecumbe, near Plymouth: seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe.

6. Ernestine Emma Horatia Edgcumbe (16 Aug 1843-1925), WHFT's niece.