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Document number: 2551
Date: Mon 1833
Harold White: 1833
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Constance, née Mundy
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA33-1
Last updated: 16th November 2016

Monday

Dear Henry

I am glad to hear such a comfortable account of Horatia. <1> Her being able to take a walk was a great improvement.

Yesterday I went to church at All Souls, Langham place where we were married. - I staid in Queen Anne St, <2> afterwards & walked with them. - The Dean of Chichester <3> called on my Mother <4> after church, & I was delighted to see him, because he l is a great favorite of mine & I had never beheld him since that day.<5> - poor man! he has been dreadfully ill with a kind of rhumatism [sic] & is only just sufficiently recovered to resume his clerical duties. -

I am going with Laura <6> today to see the exhibition of Water colored pictures; & tomorrow I fully intend to drive to Hammersmith.<7> - I am sorry I have not been able to get there sooner; but different things have prevented me. -

I want you back again sadly, but I do not really see how you will be able to tear yourself away from Lacock. - If they really leave Southampton on the 14th how shall you contrive to see them again? I suppose in that case you would join them for a day or 2 at Southampton. -

I hope you have remembered to deliver Mrs M Feilding's <8> commissions. - though I guess you will not, till the last moment. -

Yr affecte
Constance. -

Notes:

1. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810-1851), WHFT's half-sister.

2. 44 Queen Ann Street: London home of the Mundy family and a frequent base for WHFT.

3. The Rev George Chandler, Dean of Chichester from 1830 until his death in 1859.

4. Sarah Leaper Mundy, née Newton (d. 10 March 1836), WHFT's mother in law.

5. The Rev. Dean had married Constance and WHFT the previous December.

6. Laura Mundy (1805 - 1 September 1842), WHFT's sister-in-law.

7. This was possibly to visit Lady Sophia Charlotte Fitzgerald, née Feilding (d. 1834), Charles Feilding's sister. She moved to Hammersmith (now a West London suburb) after her diplomat husband, Lord Robert Stephen Fitzgerald, died in Nice in 1833. After her death, a memorial to her was placed in St Paul's Church, Hammersmith.

8. Matilda Feilding (1775-1849), WHFT's 'aunt' - sister of Charles Feilding, his stepfather.

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