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Document number: 1665
Date: Wed 16 Apr 1828
Postmark: 16 Apr 1828
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA28-003
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Wednesday

Caro Enrico <1>

Pray bring two Cambric Pocket handkfs & a pair of Gloves I left on the breakfast table the Morning I was coming away. As you stay so long I send you a newspaper pitying anybody in the country ab imo corde <2> without one. I wish you had translated the Inscription did you get a billet from <illegible>

Yrs affly

don’t forget to tell Mcphail <3> he is to search always the baskets that go back for Letters from Us.

W. H. Fox Talbot Esqr
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts


Notes:

1. Dear Henry.

2. From the bottom of its heart.

3. John Mcphail, Lacock Abbey gardener. [See Doc. No: 01676, Doc. No: 01698, and Doc. No: 01594].

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