Tuesday
My Dear Henry
The size of this paper will shew you that a long infliction on your time is not contemplated. I am afraid you had a dreadfully cold journey because you never take precautions.
I miss you sadly tho’ see so little of you when you are here when five o’clock our little tea hour arrives it is very dismal.
There are two very happy people here – they will not have half so much to say to each other when they are married–<1> I am quite determined to give away some more of the first No because the same explanatory Letter press will not be in the others, <2> & I am proud of the style which has been so much praised
Yrs
E F
[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Eqr
31. Sackville Street
London
Notes:
1. Louisa Howard, née Petty-Fitzmaurice (d. 12 Jun 1906), daughter of Lady Louisa Emma Fitzmaurice and James Kenneth Howard (1814-1882). They married on 10 February 1845.
2. The first number of WHFT's The Pencil of Nature (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844-1846). WHFT's "Introductory Remarks" was then - and remains - one of the best sources on the invention of his art.