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Document number: 5115
Date: Thu 21 Nov 1844
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 20454
Last updated: 7th July 2010

Thursday

My Dear Henry

I made a great fight to go back to you tomorrow, but L. was so moving & pathetic, I was obliged to give it up & shall stay till Saturday. She said I was the only one left of her generation she could open her heart to & I could not bear to see her in tears. My brother <1> does not come till next week. – Lady Holland <2> is at Brighton, the place is so full that she could not get a House & is gone to the Albion Hotel, close to the Sea. It has been a dense fog here all day – not possible to see a yard from the windows. nothing is so depressing to the spirits as a fog

affly yrs
E F

[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esr
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

1. Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–1858).

2. Elizabeth Fox, née Vassall (d. 1845), Lady Holland.

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