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Document number: 9460
Date: 11 Dec 1868
Postmark: 11 Dec 1868
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: JOLLIFFE Sophia Penelope, née Sheffield
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 22101
Last updated: 14th January 2011

[engraved address:]
Merstham,
Red Hill,
Surrey.

Decr 11th

Dear Henry

Many thanks for your kind consideration in writing to tell me that Charles is at Venice – it is a great pleasure to receive a letter from you, and I accept your good wishes of the Season most readily though Christmas is rather distant –

I hope you will find Matilda well, and strong, give her my love, and I shall like some day to hear, if she continues to approve of her Governess –

I hear very good accts of Harriet Mundy, she is better than usual this Winter –

Have you the “Tropæolum Azureum”? I saw it in a garden in our neighbourhood, & admired it very much.

What a useful creeper the Tacsonia Van Volxemii is, it has been blowing here for several weeks –

I wish you could be persuaded to spend a morning at Merstham in the Spring, or summer, as the Train from Charing-cross brings you to our station in ½ an hour –

Wishing you a merry Christmas in Scotland –

Believe me yours Very Truly
Sophia P. Hylton

[envelope:]
Henry Talbot Esqre.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wiltshire

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