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Document number: 1771
Date: Sun 1829
Dating: 1829?
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Charles
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA29-009
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Sunday

My dear Henry

As you have had some difficulty in colouring the new stove at Lacock to match the old, it is worth your while to look at Mr Vivians, (Marino) <1> with that view – let alone the prospect, the house, or the great ingenuity with which it is fitted up – The foundation colour seems fixed, & I could see no signs of it striping – the imitation of lichens you may, or may not adopt; but when they have been rubbed, they produce no bad effect and in other parts the whole thing is good –

Yrs aff

CF

Merthyr Mawr <2>

Henry Talbot Esqr


Notes:

1. Marino was built in 1783 and bought by John Henry Vivian (1785–1855) in 1817. Located near Veranda (the home of Calvert Jones), it was converted by Vivian to the much larger neo-gothic Singleton Abbey.

2. Merthyr Mawr, Glamorgan, on River Ogwr.

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