Lacock
Nov. 11th 1838
My Dear Mother
This morning I received a letter from Lord Auckland, <1> enclosing the deed of disclaimer signed by him at Simla in the Himalaya Mountains on the 26th of August – He says they are all well there – I have written word to King <2> of its arrival, & asked him whether I am to send it to him – I am delighted with the Anglo Saxon Dictionary <3> – I did not know such a treasure of a dictionary existed; and indeed on looking at the titlepage I find it bears the date of 1838 so that I have not been long unaware of its existence.
Mr & Mrs Moore <4> came here on Thursday & stayed till Saturday morning – The Miss Mundy’s <5> came on Friday, & Moore was very goodnatured & sung [sic] beautiful Melodies to them in the evening – They stay a week, & then to on to Weymouth for the winter. I think of coming to Town about the 25th – to be present at the Election of the new president of the Royal Society <6> on the 30th – What are your plans? & when do you think of returning here? I am wanting very much to hear what name has been determined upon for my nephew. <7>
Yours afftly
Henry
Ly E. Feilding
46 Dover St
London
Notes:
1. George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784–1849), Governor General of India.
2. Of William Read King & Son, solicitors, London.
3. J. Bosworth, A dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language (London: Longman and Co, 1838).
4. Thomas Moore (1780–1852), Irish poet, and his wife Elizabeth (Bessie) Moore, née Dyke (1783–1865).
5. The sisters of Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.
6. Royal Society of London.
7. Charles Earnest Edgcumbe (1838–1915), JP, WHFT’s nephew.
8. John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792–1840), statesman and colonial administrator.