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Document number: 4555
Date: Sun 31 Jul 1842
Harold White: 31 Jul 1842
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA42-49
Collection 2: Private
Collection 2 number: [envelope only]
Last updated: 7th June 2010

Sunday

My Dear Henry

I saw Bunsen <1> last Night at Lady Palmerston's <2> & he with many regrets told me he found he could not go down to you any day this week, I then invited Babbage <3> who was there, but his Mother who is 84 is extremely ill & he cannot therefore at present go so far from London. I then asked Wheatstone <4> (who was also there) & he accepted with alacrity & said he particularly wanted to see you, & knows Lepsius <5> well. But afterwards he came to me & said he recollected he was engaged to give a private Lecture or explanation to Baron Brunnow <6> the Russian Ambassador, on Saturday but I can ask him (which I have thought of since) if you like it, to go down on Saturday Sunday. I received the enclosed note from Lepsius this Morning & have settled with him to go down Friday as that is the first day we can go. Do you think it worth while for me to engage Wheatstone to go down on Sunday? I am going this Morning to Holland House & will put this in the post at Kensington in hopes you may get it Monday -

[envelope, in a private collection:]
Henry Fox Talbot Es
Laycock Abbey, Chippenham, Wilts.
31 July 1842
Kensington

Notes:

1. Chevalier Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1761-1860), German diplomat and scholar; Prussian Ambassador in London from 1841-1854; created Freiherr von Bunsen in 1857. [See Doc. No: 04554].

2. Lady Emily Lamb Palmerston (1787-1869).

3. Prof Charles Babbage (1792-1871), mathematician & inventor.

4. Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), scientist.

5. Dr Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884), German Egyptologist.

6. Philipp Graf von Brunnow (1797-1875), Russian ambassador in London.

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