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Document number: 591
Date: 29 Jun 1813
Recipient: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham
Collection number: Lacock Abbey Deposit WRO 2664
Last updated: 7th July 2006

Harrow <1>

June 29th 1813.

My dear Mamma,

I think the book is very pretty: I hope you are coming to the Speeches – Sperling, the captain, speaks Gray’s ode “the Bard”. – Welsh speaks the speech of Cassius <2> – I never saw such a tremendous shower as fell yesterday: – Some pipe burst, & the servants hall got full of water. – I have learned 100 lines of Virgil this morning by heart: it is about good & bad soils – & vines, olives, & corn. I am in the 2d Georgick 250th line – Jane <3> has not answered my last letter. I am going to do my theme. It is about frugality – So I shall be frugal of my writing

Yr Affte Son

WHFTalbot

Pray come to the Speeches. At one oclock on Thursday next – Precisely

Lady Elisabeth Feilding
31 Sackville St
London


Notes:

1. Harrow School: WHFT attended from 1811–1815 and his son Charles from 1855-1859.

2. Gaius Cassius, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar.

3. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874).

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