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Document number: 6395
Date: 03 Mar 1851
Dating: corrected from Feb
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS William Thomas Horner Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 20482
Last updated: 18th February 2012

Ab. <1>
3 Feb March 1851

My dear Henry

I left with Caroline <2> a few tracts that may be interesting to you, & which I can give you. Have you made anything out of the Bernardishe Sprachkarte Deutschlands?

I shall take this to the garden & put in a specimen of something, I know not what.

I have found a Mr Saunders <3> at Wandsworth who bought many of the bulbs &c of Dr Herbert, <4> & who cultivates succulents – he has a very rich collection & we have promised each other mutual assistance.

Agave saponaria has stood out this winter with no protection whatever. so has Amaryllis Josephinæ<,> Chamærops hystrix & Piper excelsum & Pomaderris apetala.

What do you think of the present unsatisfactory state of affairs? What a triumph the Pope <5> has had – without a leg to stand on barring a French bayonet he has upset a popular British Ministry with his little finger. What a page for a future Macaulay. <6>

I am from Moreton <7> where I saw a good letter from Horatia <8> of late date.

Yr aff
W F S

[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esqr
Laycock Abbey-
Chippenham


Notes:

1. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.

2. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.

3. William Wilson Saunders (1809–1879), botanist and entomologist.

4. William Herbert, Dean of Manchester (1778–1847), MP; clergy; botanist; linguist.

5. Pius IX [Pio Nono], popular during the revolution of 1848, had been returned to Rome in 1850 by French military action, but had become deeply reactionary.

6. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859), MP & historian.

7. Moreton, Dorset: home of the Frampton family.

8. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.

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