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Document number: 3634
Date: Mon 19 Nov 1838
Dating: 1838? christening - response to 03756 17 Nov
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Monday

My Dear Henry

How I love you for the thought! I wish you would because where <illegible> <1> the surnames are so different there can be no confusion among cousins. Caroline <2> means to give the whole name according to a letter from Augusta <3> which I enclose, to save myself writing explanations being very unwell. You might add Sherrington <4> which would make an additional distinction. Take care of Augusta’s letter, I want it again. Wright <5> is attached at present to Horatia’s <6> movements, between Abbotsbury, Melbury <7> & Weymouth, & then will accompany her to town to assist at the Christening <8> which Caroline prevailed on me to consent to. You will find therefore both Wright and Joseph in Sackville Street <9> (there is no room in this house for them) will not that be enough for you? Your translation from M. Endlicher <10> gave me the greatest pleasure I hope you will begin a correspondence with him. I often wonder you have not more correspondents among enlightened Foreigners. William <11> has a great many though he has not half the number of your pursuits & irons in the fire. Surely you can be in town by the 27th the day the xtning is to be

aff yrs

EF

Notes:

1. Text obscured under seal.

2. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.

3. Probably Augusta Sophia Hicks, née Feilding, sister of WHFT’s step-father.

4. See Doc. No: 03788.

5. James Wright, footman to the Talbots & Constable for Lacock.

6. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.

7. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, and Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.

8. Of Charles Earnest Edgcumbe (1838–1915), JP, WHFT’s nephew. [See Doc. No: 03753].

9. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT

10. István László Endlicher (1804–1849), Austrian botanist, philologist and politician. [See Doc. No: 03756].

11. William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (1795–1865), botanist, art collector & diplomat.

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