Monday
Lacock Nov. 21
My dear Charles
This afternoon we had a visit from Mr and Mrs John Llewelyn, <1> who are staying with the Vicar – It was nearly dusk when they called, but they are coming tomorrow to be duly lionized about the Abbey. Your mother & Ela <2> leave here tomorrow morning for Markeaton. <3> Your geometrical theorem is quite correct in the reasoning, but old Euclid <4> would have been very much surprised at the nature of the demonstration, and would have looked twice at it before he accepted it.
I enclose 2 other demonstratns of the same.
I subscribed towards Chapel Hill church in consequence of a very pressing appeal from the Curate, The Revd G. Jones. <5> which I enclose, and please to return it.
Your affte Father
Notes:
1. John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810–1882), Welsh photographer, JP & High Sheriff and Emma Thomasina Llewelyn, née Talbot (1806–1881), photographer; WHFT’s Welsh cousin.
2. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife and Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1st daughter.
3. Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire, NW of Derby: home of the Mundy family.
4. Euclid of Alexandria ( ca.325–265), mathematician.
5. Rev George Jones, curate at Chapel Hill, near Chepstow.