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Document number: 7689
Date: Thu 09 Sep 1858
Harold White: 9 Sep 1858
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Charles Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

PREST D’ACCOMPLIR <1>

Harrow <2>

Thursday

My dear Father.

I am you see here all safe. As I thought you might be in town I enquired at the Athenaum <3> whether you had been there and was told you hadnt. I am sorry to say that the 10 pound you gave me has not lasted me for I had to borrow a pound from Bagwell <4> to get here so that you see I am minus a pound <illegible deletion> If you will be so good as to send me some money soon I shall be all right. I was rather sea sick coming across on Tuesday night, but after that agreable operation I went down & got into my berth & also to sleep.

We did the National Gallery again yesterday as also Henry VII chapel & the rest of Westminster Abbey

I have not yet seen the comet <5>

Your affect son

Charles Talbot.

Notes:

1. ‘Ready To Accomplish’, over the engraved crest of a lion.

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

3. Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, London: WHFT’s club; a gentleman’s club composed primarily of artists and scientists.

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

5. Comet Tuttle, visible in September of 1858.

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