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Document number: 3502
Date: Tue 18 Apr 1837
Postmark: 18 Apr 1837
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: MUNDY Harriot Georgiana, née Frampton
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 29th October 2010

My dear Henry

I write to you by my mothers <1> desire, as she wants you to get her a few old Books which we see are on sale at Thorpe’s – The said Thorpe <2> now lives 178 Piccadilly so I hope her commission will not give You much trouble – Here followeth the names of the Books she wants. –

No S · D
155   Belgica Antiquitates – s3 0
1499 Adventures of the Six Princesses of Babylon <3> 3s· d6
1632 Pretender 0 0
1633 Do 0 0
1635 Do 0
1636 Do 0
1643 Do 0
1644 Do 6
1646 Do 0
2203 Vallency’s Essay on Antiquity of the Irish Language – <4>   4· 0  
1·14· 0  

We much hope you will be able to get all these, but if not pray get what you can – and my mother says if you have any regard for her affection you will go in search of them instanter as otherwise they will be snatched from her grasp. –

Mr Mundys <5> account of dear Constance and her Baby <6> pleased me excessively, but made me wish terribly to see them both. Do tell her I should have written to her only that I have never a moment to do any thing in – Noels <7> illness just as I was getting pretty brisk, hindered me for many days and now that we are here it is as much as I can find strength for to go out and “see after” my children, without any sensible occupation whatever! – I am getting better but am still but weak – we enjoy this place very much & the Extreme cheapness of the houses & freshness of the air rise it most Exceedingly high in my estimation – The Esplanade is so much lengthened since I was here that the privacy of ones walks is immensely encreased because nobody has strength to walk far on it & so the upper end near which we live is as quiet as possible – I can even carry my own baby up & down near our house when I like, which is certainly not like an ordinary Watering place. Tell Constance that Adrian <8> is somewhat improved in sleeping & considerably improved in general tranquillity & that I am highly delighted she has invited her Brother to take upon him the responsible Office o[f] Godfather – We are longing to know what its name is to be.<9>

Yr aff Sister!
H. G Mundy

13 Gloucester Row
Weymouth
Tuesday. –

Henry Fox Talbot Esqre
65 Harley StreetLondon


Notes:

1. Lady Harriet Frampton, née Fox Strangways (d. 1844) .

2. Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), bookseller, London.

3. Lucy Peacock, The adventures of the six princesses of Babylon, in their travels to the temple of virtue: an allegory (London: 1785).

4. Charles Vallancey, An essay on the antiquity of the Irish language. Being a collation of the Irish with the Punic language… (Dublin: S. Powell, 1772).

5. William Mundy (1801-1877), politician, WHFT's brother-in-law.

6. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife, and Rosamond Constance Talbot (16 Mar 1837 - 7 May 1906), 'Rose'; 'Monie'; artist & WHFT's 2nd daughter; died & buried at San Remo, Italy, with a memorial at Lacock.

7. Her son, Francis Noel Mundy (1833–1903).

8. Her second son, Adrian William Mundy, who died an infant at Brighton on 14 September 1837.

9. Harriot's husband, William Mundy. He would become godfather to Rosamond (see note 6).

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