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Document number: 7850
Date: 15 Apr 1859
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Christopher Rice Mansel
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 21246
Last updated: 9th July 2010

London April 15 1859

My dear Henry

Your letter dated the 7th has but just reached me. I sincerely congratulate you and beg you to present my congratulations to your daughter from me, upon the occasion which dictated your letter: and I hope that her marriage may be a source of unfailing comfort to her and to you. As you say the world does not grow wiser as it grows older, witness those two great babies the Empires of France and Austria. But if it does not grow wiser, it unquestionably goes round, and the marriages of my friends daughter is one proof. Here is my youngest sister a grandmother, & yet it seems but as yesterday that our friend the Home Secretary was having his verses read out by Butler from his awful rostrum. Eheu fugaces!

Every Yours most Truly
CRM Talbot

[envelope:]
W. H. F. Talbot Esq
11 Randolph Crescent
Edinburgh
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts

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