Friday
My Dear Henry
There is a green Box with Mr Feilding’s <1> Name on it, which was left with Mr Paley, <2> it is full of Papers of consequence & he hopes you will bring it up carefully with you when you come, which we hope & suppose will be the beginning of next Week. Mr Paley gave a receipt for it, and so you must do the same to him.
I hope you have not found the Assizes so dreadful & so hot as the last time
affly yrs
E F
Henry Fox Talbot Esqr
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Notes:
1. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.
2. Probably Rev James Paley (1790–1863), Vicar at Lacock.
3. Letter not located.