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Document number: 1721
Date: Tue 07 Oct 1828
Postmark: 10 Oct 1828
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Charles
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA28-76
Last updated: 21st December 2011

Carclew. <1>
Oct. 7. Tuesday

My dear Henry

I hope this will catch you at Paris – not that I have much to tell you in addition to the Letter you will have found there from your Mother, <2> but to state that I have written you two long Letters <3> to Geneva which (one I am sure & the other I am afraid) you have never recd I do not know that they are worth sending for, but still one does not like the idea of their being lost altogether – I think your sisters <4> mending of their long tiresome colds fail, & if they do not catch others, now that we are again going to move. I shall be less anxious than I have been lately. Our visit here has been as agreeable as possible – Lemon <5> is the best & most amiable of men, & kindness itself to the Girls, who are accordingly very fond of him – our plan is to go tomorrow to Ld de Dunstanville <6> at Ichily (10 miles) on the North coast – thence on Thursday to St Michaels Mount to St John St Aubyns <7> which is a very interesting place where we sleep. By the bye St John just missed buying some Time since the other Mont St Michel in Granville Bay – it would have been curious to have been the possessor of both. he would however have had some difficulty in tunnelling a road from one to the other – on Friday we go to St Rose Prices, Trengwainton, <8> by way of being within reach of the Lands end, on Saturday return here, stay Sunday, go to Ld Falmouths <9> Monday & Wednesday proceed towards Moreton, <10> where we shall arrive to remain Friday & where I hope you will join us <11> – The last accounts of John <12> are of his being at Naples with William, <13> coming home directly it is therefore possible you may meet him at Paris – ask about him at the Embassy. I hope you will see Lady Stuart & pray remember your Mother & me most kindly to her. I have no commission to trouble you with except the enquiring of Feuillel why he does not send your Mothers Tasse à Abrilles for which I paid him before I left Paris – I am writing to Mary <14> to get my rooms ready for you in Sackville St thinking that for the 2 or 3 days you stay in Town, you would prefer being down stairs – If however you come to Moreton, I do not see why you should not take the Coast Road – there is a very good coach to Southampton & another to Dorchester by Wareham which would is set you down about 6 miles from Moreton – You may if you think of it thank the Suisee at the Ambassador for his good nature in putting my Letters which are sent enclosed to him into the Petite Poste, <15> & say I hope he will continue to do so –

God bless you my dearest Hy
C. F.

If you go to Sackville St write a Line to Mary Horne to say what day she is to expect you –
We have been unlucky in not seeing Sr Rd Vyvyan, <16> but messages & notes have passed

Monsieur
Monsieur Fox Talbot

France
Poste Restante
Paris


Notes:

1. Carclew, Cornwall, 3 mi N of Penryn: seat of Sir Charles Lemon.

2. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.

3. See Doc. No: 01707, and Doc. No: 01718.

4. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister and Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.

5. Sir Charles Lemon (1784–1868), politician & scientist; WHFT’s uncle.

6. Francis Basset, 1stBaron de Dunstanville and Basset (1757–1835), MP, FRS, and political writer. In 1824, his second marriage was to Harriet, née Lemon (1777–1864), WHFT's aunt.

7. Granite island about 400 yards (365 metres) offshore in Mount’s Bay on the English Channel, in the western part of the county of Cornwall, England. In 1659 it was sold to Colonel John St Aubyn.

8. Cornwall.

9. Edward Boscawen, 1st Earl of Falmouth (1787–1841)

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

11. See Doc. No: 01718.

12. John George Charles Fox Strangways (1803–1859), MP.

13. William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (1795–1865), botanist, art collector & diplomat.

14. Housemaid.

15. District post office.

16. Sir Richard Hussey Vivian (1775–1842), politician.

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