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Document number: 7793
Date: Thu 20 Jan 1859
Dating: corrected to calendar
Harold White: 22 Jan 1859
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 sorry to have disappointed you by not writing, the fact is that as we only parted at Didcot, I it seemed to me almost as if we had finished our journey together. The whether weather has been rainy here just lately, & we have had no frosts, but only football weather. I like the new arrangement of things much, better than the way we had last quarter.

I saw Mrs Shakespear <3> here on Tuesday, she is staying with the Taylers, and her brother has just entered the school, I think in the 2nd 4th. How are you getting on with your engraving? I was asked by a boy yesterday whether you were not finding out the method of making photographs in the natural colours.

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. Probably Henrietta Shakespear.

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