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Document number: 7564
Date: 07 Mar 1858
Dating: 1858?
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Charles Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 24th January 2011

Harrow. <1>
March 7.

My dear Father,

I received your letter on the 26th February but I am afraid I have been rather long in answering it. I send you a bill book. We saw the eclipse of the moon <2> very nicely not withstanding the fact of its interrupting a game of chess. We have been skating the greater part of the last week. It thawed on Friday & Saturday but it is freezing hard to day. There will probably be skating tomorrow but I don’t know whether I shall be able to join having got a sore throat. Last Thursday was a whole holiday on account of Mr Holmes marriage. The half holiday on Saturday was made a whole school day on account of disobedience to the order about snow balling in the school yard during billtime. One boy had been turned down for it out of the 2nd 6th into the 1st Vth. It was the fault of the monitors who ought to have stopped it. 5 fellows out of our house went Hardcastle. <3> Rogers. <4> Bagwell. <5> Mallock. <6> Medlycott. <7> got signed on the Thursday February 25 for 4 bill <8> I by went to Kew gardens. They ran nearly the whole way there & spent an hour in the gardens & had enough time to walk the whole way back. having done it easily in 4 hours & 1/2 . wasnt that wonderful. Of course it is doubly out of bounds for one has to cross 2 railways The bounds are unfair for Stanmore is out of bounds. One of those fellows made the highly original remark on seeing an (elephants foot (plant)) that he would like to put it on his head & play football in it. On Tuesday February 23. we went I went with them to Ealing doing it easily between bills at ½ past 9 ¼ to 2 & at 4. A station on the great western that’s more than I thought that I could do.

Goodbye. My dear Father your affect. son
Charles Henry Talbot


Notes:

1. Harrow School: WHFT attended from 1811–1815 and his son Charles from 1855-1859.

2. On 27 February 1858, there was a partial lunar eclipse.

3. Henry Hardcastle, son of Joseph Alfred Hardcastle, MP, of Chelmsford.

4. Walter Francis Rogers (d.1895), son of John Rogers, of Sevenoaks.

5. Richard Bagwell, attended Harrow 1854–1859; son of John Bagwell (b.1811), of Marlfield, Ireland.

6. Charles could have been friends with either of two sons of Charles Herbert Mallock (1802-1873) of Cockington Court, Torquay, whilst at Harrow. Charles Herbert Mallock (1840-1875), later a barrister, entered in 1854. Richard Mallock (1843-1900), later an MP, entered in 1858. Both left Harrow in 1859, the year of Charles Henry's departure.

7. Hubert James Medlicott attended Harrow 1854–1861, son of Sir W. C. Medlycott, 2nd bart., vicar.

8. Role call of each house.

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