Lacock
June 22. 1840
My dear Mother
I am very glad Beulah Spa air answered so well. It is most conveniently near to London, and I only wonder that it was never discovered before.– I have been copying the family pedigree for Kit <1> who had suddenly become deeply interested about Elizabeth Leighton. <2> I am glad you have found the photographs they should now be stuck into the new albums – I enclose an advertisement from the Wiltshire papers – Sir D. Brewster & Sir J. Herschel <3> are both very much pleased with the last pictures I sent them. Sir J. H. especially admires the treillage in your garden.
I wish you would show my Album to Mr Carpmael <4> He is a lawyer and patent agent and a very clever man; he says that he could call at any hour, on receiving a day or two’s previous notice –
His address is
W. Carpmael Esq.
Patent Office
Lincolns Inn
We expect Mlle Amélina <5> on Thursday
Yours afftly
Henry
Notes:
1. Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician; WHFT’s Welsh cousin.
2. She was the wife of Sherington Talbot. [See Doc. No: 04106].
3. Sir David Brewster (1781–1868), Scottish scientist & journalist, and Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792–1871), astronomer & scientist.
4. William Carpmael (1804–1867), patent agent & engineer, London.
5. Amélina Petit De Billier, ‘Mamie’, ‘Amandier’ (1798–1876), governess and later close friend of the Talbot family [See Amélina's journal].