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Document number: 3075
Date: 27 Apr 1835
Postmark: 27 Apr 1835
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: COLE Mary Lucy, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA35-008
Last updated: 1st September 2003

My dear Henry

You judged rightly that nobody would be more interested than me, in the birth of your dear little daughter <1> – I am happy that your amiable wife <2> is doing well & I trust they may long be your comfort & happiness – I could not help anticipating the time when I shd see this welcome little babe running on Oxwich sands quite forgetting that time is creeping on with me so that this winter has put me in mind of my age very much for I have had a rheumatic attack that confined me for a fortnight The garden looks very gay & the seeds you last sent me are coming up & carefully watched both by Mary <3> & me. pray give my kind congratulations to Constance

& believe me your aff Aunt

M: L: Cole

I am expecting Kit <4> here tomorrow.

H: F: Talbot Esqr
31 Sackville St
London

Notes:

1. Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1st daughter.

2. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

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

4. Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician; WHFT’s Welsh cousin.

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