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Document number: 3423
Date: Sun 27 Aug 1837
Dating: Mr Feilding died the following Saturday, 2 Sep
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA37-27
Last updated: 17th August 2016

Sunday morning

My dear Henry

I think by sending this to Hounslow you will get it tomorrow and I wish you to come as soon as you can. There is no ammendment [sic], & the weakness so extreme that they doubt his being able to bear the remedies any longer.<1> But still Dr Symour says it is not absolutely hopeless but I am without hope & therefore naturally look to you to comfort me in this great extremity, the bitterest trial I have ever had. – You will find your room ready here, I have requested Mr M. to seek a lodging – I have been up these two nights & feel rather ill, but do not like to leave him a moment, or to lose any of the last hours of thirty three years of kindness & happiness

immediate
Henry Fox Talbot Eq
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wiltshire

Notes:

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

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