My dear Henry
I received My MS <1> yesty & am sorry that I had not time to acknowledge it until today, as I had many letters to write. I have sent it on to Chambers,<2> & shall let you know the result. Many thanks for all your trouble in my behalf. I have mentioned my MS & your efforts for me to Charlotte Traherne,<3> who says Macmillan<4> is always tiresome, & treated Mr Maskeleyne<5> in the same way, & kept him a long time waiting, so he is one of the disagreable Editors.
I see a new Magazine which seems to have amusing articles – the “Covent Garden.”<6> If Chambers fails I shall ask at it.
Your affte
Louisa Chtte Frampton
Lulworth Villa
St Mary Church
Torquay –
Friday Aug. 6.
[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esqre
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Notes:
1. See Louisa Charlotte Frampton,‘Princess Charlotte and Mrs Campbell’, The Gentleman’s Magazine, n.s. v. 27, September 1876, pp. 275-289. Alicia Campbell, née Kelly, ‘Tam’ (1768–1829), a close family friend of the Framptons, first joined Princess Charlotte’s household in 1805.
2. Chambers Edinburgh Journal was a weekly started by William Chambers in Edinburgh in 1832. By the 1850s, its publication had moved to London, under the title Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts.
3. Charlotte Louisa 'Charry' Traherne, née Talbot (1800–1880), WHFT’s cousin.
4. From 1868-1883, George Grove was the editor of MacMillan's Magazine, a monthly published in London and Cambridge.
5. Nevil Story-Maskelyne (1823–1911), photographer, politician & scientist.
6. The first number of The Covent Garden Magazine, edited by W. H. C. Nation, an author and thespian, was issued in London at the start of 1875; it ceased publication in 1880.