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Document number: 791
Date: Thu 13 Apr 1876
Dating: added in another hand - confirmed by calendar & 00561
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: MUNDY Harriot Georgiana, née Frampton
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: 26188 / encl 26187
Last updated: 12th December 2010

Markeaton <1>
Maundy Thursday!

My dear Henry

Will you enlighten me as to the name of the enclosed. <2> It is an oldfashioned thing so I ought to remember it - but I don't! - I returned home yesterday & this morning am greeted with snow 12 inches deep! and a cold N.E. wind - such a change from last week, which was quite hot in London, more especially Saturday. -

I did not see very many kinsfolk - but Sir W. Gallwey <3> enquired much after you having an affectionate remembrance of my Aunt<4> & the pleasant days in Sackville Street. <5> - I could tell him nothing very recent of Caroline, <6> but suppose her to be at Cotehele or Mount Edgcumbe. <7> The Ilchesters were not in Town but Mrs Strangways <8> & Maria Howe[?] were there. Mrs S. has given a stained glass E. window &c to Farley Church <9> which is a nice thing to have done. I have a regard for Sir Stephen Fox's old Church. -

I hope Ela's <10> Bulbs have prospered - Our gardener is in a great state of mind on account of the Frosts - 12 deg. on Tuesday Night. Certainly horticultural matters are pursued under great difficulties in this climate! I cannot get the "Duchess of Edinburgh" Rose Tea Rose - which Constance <11> recommended in her last letter to me. Where did she get hers? - as I suppose I might procure it from thence?

Your Affte
H G Mundy

N. & E. were to leave England today wind & weather permitting - them - both doubtful methinks.

Notes:

1. Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire, NW of Derby: home of the Mundy family.

2. The flower is still preserved with the original of this letter.

3. Sir William Payne Gallwey, 2nd Bart (1807-1881).

4. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773-1846), WHFT's mother.

5. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.

6. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808-1881); WHFT's half-sister.

7. Cotehele, Cornwall: ancient house, seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe, now a National Trust Property, and Mt Edgecumbe, near Plymouth: seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe.

8. See Doc. No: 00351.

9. All Saints Church, Farley, Wiltshire, built by Sir Stephen Fox (1627-1716), statesman, father of the 1st Earl of Ilchester, and completed by 1689-1690. [See Doc. No: 09199].

10. Ela Theresa Talbot (1835-1893), WHFT's 1st daughter. [See Doc. No: 00561].

11. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811-1880), WHFT's wife.

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