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Document number: 7638
Date: 21 May 1858
Dating: year established by the Shrewsbury case
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: MUNDY Harriot Georgiana, née Frampton
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 29th October 2010

47 Bank St
May 21

My dear Henry

I asked Uncle Wm <1> to give me a Tacsonia – (creeper) – but he referred me to you, saying that your were famous for such like. I therefore make humble application to you on the subject of that & also of the “Hibbertia drutata” so if you would either let me have a good Cutting or strike me a wee plant your Petitioner wd ever pray &c &c

Ld Dynevor<2> told Mr Mundy <3> that he considered the Shrewsbury Peerage over, <4> as far as collecting Evidence &c went – It will now go to a Committee of the Law Lords – It seems to be vry favorable to Lord Talbot I am happy to sy. Constance<5> wrote to say she &c talked of coming up next month. Everything will be in such a state of animation then, ie bustle – that we cannot expect to enjoy her society much I fear –.

Yrs affly
Ht My<6>

The Llewelyns<7> are gone today – The Trahernes<8> depart on Wednesday –


Notes:

1. William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4th Earl Ilchester (1795-1865), WHFT's favourite uncle; botanist, art collector & diplomat.

2. George Rice-Trevor, 4th Lord Dynevor (1795-1869).

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

4. Henry John Chetwynd Talbot, 18th Earl Shrewsbury, 5th Baron Talbot (1803–1868), succeeded Bertram Arthur, the 17th Earl, after the latter’s death 10 August 1856. The succession was contested by James Robert Hope Scott and Lord Edmund Bernard Fitzalan Howard (by his guardian Hon. Albert Henry Petre) in the Court of Chancery in January and February of 1858, and Lord Talbot’s Petition of Appeal was brought before the Committee of Privileges in the House of Lords 12 March 1858, and resolved in the summer of that year. [See Journals of the House of Lords, v. 90].

5. Constance Talbot, née Mundy - (30 Jan 1811 - 9 Sep 1880), WHFT's wife - the '&c' presumably refers to her children.

6. The signature is smeared and virtually illegible, but the handwriting and expression are consistent with that of Harriot Mundy.

7. John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810-1882), Welsh photographer, JP & High Sheriff; and his wife, Emma Thomasina Llewelyn, née Talbot (1806-1881), photographer; WHFT's Welsh cousin.

8. Rev John Montgomerie Traherne (1788-1860), JP & author; and his wife, Charlotte Louisa Mansel Traherne, née Talbot, 'Charry' (1800-1880), WHFT's cousin.

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