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Document number: 1798
Date: 17 Feb 1829
Dating: 1829?
Harold White: 1829?
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS John George Charles Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA29-34
Last updated: 3rd January 2011

Abbotsbury <1>
Febr 17 –

Dear Henry

You will have received Sir Cs <2> letter at the moment I received yours Inshallah <3> I shall be with you Tuesday morning; You see the Turkish fatalists are right for before your invitation came it had clearly been written that I should have the pleasure of paying you a visit,

Yours Affec
J. Fox Strangways

H Talbot Esqr
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts

Notes:

1. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.

2. Probably Sir Charles Lemon (1784–1868), politician & scientist; WHFT’s uncle. His letter is not located.

3. God willing. JFS would have become familiar with this Muslim expression while in Turkey or Egypt 1824–1826/7.

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