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Document number: 547
Date: 21 Sep 1811
Recipient: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA11-12
Last updated: 21st February 2012

Harrow <1>
Sept. 21 – 1811

My dear Mamma,

There are about seventeen new boys come I believe. I do not know how to describe my study to you, it is very snug & very convenient, it has a bookcase thus: [illustration] I fill the top shelf with anything, to put it out of the way; The comet had past its perihelion before it was visible, I think: it has now been visible to me a fortnight and has moved thus

xxxxx A being Sept. 6.
xx B. being Sept 11–
CBA C. Sept. 19 –

Today is a whole holiday, so I have some time – I find fitting up my study is an expensive job, I have already expended about 22 shillings & I shall have to pay perhaps more. I intend to write to Mr F <2> today so I must conclude –

Yr affte Son
W. H F Talbot

I do not remember having put the interjection O! if you will write me back my Latin, I will translate it properly – The first is Thus. Here comes jalop an extraordinary medicine

Rt Honble Lady Elizabeth [sic] Feilding
Penrice Castle
near Swansea
Glamorgan

[enclosure]

to direct his attention, as he is already eagerly disposed to attack it.


Notes:

1. Harrow School: WHFT attended from 1811–1815 and his son Charles from 1855-1859.

2. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.

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