My dear Henry
My Brother <1> thinks of taking Stavordale <2> to Nice for the winter & wants to see a map of it & the environs. If you will look in a portfolio which is in the great case in the Dining room, <&> <3> is full of all sorts of maps, you will find one & can send it enclosed to William. <4> As we came away in such a hurry I do not think Wright <5> had time to look it up. I say nothing of our amendment because Horatia <6> is writing to you
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London, July Seven, 1837 Ilchester, –
H. F. Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–1858).
2. Henry Thomas Leopold Fox Strangways, Lord Stavordale (1816–1837).
3. Text obscured by seal.
4. William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (1795–1865), botanist, art collector & diplomat.
5. James Wright, footman to the Talbots & Constable for Lacock.
6. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.