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Document number: 220
Date: Tue 20 Dec 1836
Dating: before Doc no 03503 (Busch) - only reasonable calendar date
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Constance, née Mundy
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 8th March 2012

Tuesday 20. –

My dear Henry,

I forward the letters that are come for you this morning, because I conclude you will receive them just before you set out tomorrow. & [illegible deletion] as they appear to be enclosures, perhaps they may be for somebody at Lacock. – Thank you for the [Ragged?] robin I have just been myself to Lady Ilchester’s, <1> & taken the flowers for Mr Strangways. <2> – He was not at home, but Lady I. promised to take care of them & put them in water.

You have indeed sent me some most lovely things – the [illegible] rotundifolia I admire excessively. – & many or rather all of the others are charming too. – It really gives one rather a pang, to think of the country being so beautiful when one is far away & cannot enjoy it. – I did take Laura to Mrs Wats Russell’s,<3> but we were neither of us particularly pleased. – As I am to see you so soon I will not say more than that I am

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Constance.

I have just had an interview with Mr Busch, the Music master who was recommended to me & liked him much, so I have fixed to take my first lesson on Friday<4> You will observe that the letter I enclose is for Mlle Amélina <5> I conclude you will frank it to her. –

Notes:

1. Juliana Maria Strangways, née Digby (d. 1842).

2. Probably William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (1795–1865), botanist, art collector & diplomat.

3. Laura Mundy (1805– 1 Sep 1842), WHFT’s sister-in-law. Mary, née Watts, 1st , wife of Jessie Watts-Russell (1786-1875)JP, High Sheriff & MP, of Ilam, Staffordshire, & Biggin, Northamptonshire.

4. She continued these for some months - see Doc. No: 03503.

5. Amélina Petit De Billier, ‘Mamie’, ‘Amandier’ (1798–1876), governess and later close friend of the Talbot family [See Amélina's journal].

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