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Document number: 704
Date: 29 Jun 1816
Recipient: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA16-26
Last updated: 29th July 2013

Castleford, <1>
29th June, 1816.

My Dear Mamma,

Pray send me some bark from Apothecaries Hall, <2> for I don’t think what I get here is at all good.

I use the Gargle frequently; whether it does me any good or not, I don’t know. A Son of Mr Baring’s is coming here in a few days – I am glad to find that perhaps Nuttall will not return, & that if he does it will not be for more than a month. My Garden is not so gay as I expected: first because the nurserymen sold me wrong plants, & bad roots of right plants – & secondly because they have not been taken any care of during my absence. Nevertheless there are some pretty things. Give my love to Car. & Hor. <3> & tell them I don’t want my Fern here. When will my clothes come from France? I want two new books. namely –

Æschines contrà Ctesiphentem, Demosthenes de Coronâ, <4> } which are usually bound together

and Xenophon’s Memorabilia. <5>

What news of my German Pocketbook? I rode to Tadcaster <6> the other day, which is twenty six miles.

and remain, Yr Affte Son
W. H. F. T. –

Gryphs – conundrum.

Why is a clever man called a y z ?

The Lady E. Feilding
31 Sackville Street
London


Notes:

1. Castleford, Yorkshire, 10 mi SE of Leeds, where WHFT went to school from 1815-1816.

2. Apothecaries Hall, Blackfriars Lane, London, dates from ca.1690.

3. 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.

4. Æschines against Ctesiphon, Demosthenes on the crown. This is probably an earlier edition of Æschinis in Ctesiphontem et Demosthenis De corona (London: R. Priestley, 1837).

5. Probably a contemporary edition of Xenophon’s Memorabilia of Socrates.

6. Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England.

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