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Document number: 1509
Date: Fri 30 Nov 1826
Harold White: 30 Nov 1826
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Author 2: FEILDING Charles
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 13th March 2012

[although unsigned, the main letter is in the hand of Lady Elisabeth]

Worthing
Freytag <1>

Mein schatzen<2>

Aus liebe für mich <3> do make one more effort to find the said old pedigree book & album - I think they must be in that large round table which generally stands in the front drawing room, & is I conclude there now, in the middle of that conglomeration of meubles. The album I believe is in an old leather cover. Mr Feilding <4> has lost his Beret de Basque which we brought him, & he likes it so much he begs Mr Wates will inquire for it, it was left in the fiacre No [blank space] Will you tell Mr Wates this, & likewise to go to our newsman & change the Morning Chronicle for the Morning Herald.<5> I suppose you read it every day before Mr W. dispatches it to us. Pray desire Sarah <6> to go to Mrs Edwards <7> in the Quadrant, & to enquire for an answer which means some money (owed to Gwynne <8>) which Giovanni <9> is to bring her. Sarah knows all about it.

After all Richard <10> says he does not know the No of the fiacre & thinks the Beret was left in Sackville Street, <11> pray desire Sarah to look for it & if found to put it carefully by till Mr F. returns. If you find yourself par hasard <12> walking by No 86 St James's Street opposite Pall Mall, pray look at a new invented Planisphere by Wollaston, <13> & let me know whether you think it worth twelve Shillings.

Leben sie [sic] wohl mein zärtlich geliebt <14>

We have never been able to get a Harp here.

Caroline <15> is sadly afraid she has lost a certain green marble sketch book of Mr Montgomerie's, <16> with some beautiful sketches of Genoa. We took it the last Evening to amuse Charlotte, <17> & think it must be left in the table dra[wer]<18> of my dressing room. Pray look for [it] & make her mind easy. If it is troublesome to bring it with you lock it up there.

[added note by Charles Feilding:]

This drawing room is so small we cannot all warm ourselves at once, so I often retire to my own room pour me rechauffer, but you will have your own withdrawing room below.

W. H. Fox Talbot Esqr
31 Sackville Street
London


Notes:

1. Friday.

2. [schatzchen] = my little treasure.

3. For love of me.

4. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780-1837), Royal Navy; WHFT's step-father.

5. London daily newspapers.

6. Sarah, housemaid.

7. See Doc. No: 01365.

8. Mrs Gwynne (d. winter 1841/1842), lady's maid, cook and housekeeper to Elisabeth Feilding.

9. Giovanni Percij.

10. Richard, a servant.

11. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.

12. By chance.

13. A Planisphere was a device that depicted the heavens for any given hour and day. Invented by Rev. Francis Wollaston, F.R.S. (1731-1815), a new version published by John Cary went on sale in 1826 at his new premises at no. 86 St James Street, near St. James Palace.

14. "Fare thee well my tenderly beloved", probably deriving from a song.

15. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808-1881); WHFT's half-sister.

16. Rev George Stephen Molyneux Montgomerie (1790-1850), close friend of Talbot family, artist, Rector of Garboldisham, near Thetford, Norfolk.

17. Charlotte Louisa 'Charry' Traherne, née Talbot (1800-1880), WHFT's cousin.

18. Text torn away under seal.

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