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Document number: 6231
Date: 17 May 1849
Dating: 1849?
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Mary Thereza
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Lanelay <1>

May 17

My dear Henry

I am very much obliged to you for sending me your letter, <2> one likes to know as much as possible about one’s dear absent friends & altho’ it is not a comfortable state of things it might be worse & being in suspense is always very annoying if not wearing to all at home. Whenever Mr Nicholl <3> has made up his mind to come home alone, he has been prevented I think by some rumours if not actual disturbances!

I had been thinking of writing to you a few days before I received your letter. My fine bunches of Allium subhirsutum never fail to make me wish you would pay us a visit! and the white betony we dug up in the fields thrives likewise but the first appearance of the Plantain our fighting cocks in days of yore always reminds me of you more than any plant that grows & I was talking about a game you & I had, since we have come to years of discretion, only a few days before, I got your little note! Our railway will perhaps make us more in the world & if it brings our friends here we shall not have cause to find fault with the station being so near us, about half a mile off I think it will be. the works are going on but not very rapidly at present. – Mamma <4> has the Rheumatism in her arm but is tolerably well, Isabella <5> & her two youngest childn are here. She is not well & we hope change of air may be of some benefit as the air here is like Malvern very bracing & the soil dry. Kate Nicholl <6> is likewise with us still & Mr Franklen <7> comes tomorrow. –

What occupies you now? I long to see or hear about your proceedings as I conclude you are not in Town for nothing

I am you affate coz

Mary

Notes:

1. Llanely, or Lanely, Glamorganshire: home of Lady Mary Cole and Mary Thereza Talbot.

2. Letter not located.

3. Dr John Nicholl (1797–1853), MP.

4. Lady Mary Lucy Cole, née Strangways, first m. Talbot (1776–1855), WHFT’s aunt.

5. Isabella Catherine Franklen, née Talbot (1804–1874).

6. Kate Nicholl, daughter of Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874).

7. Richard Franklen, husband of Isabella Franklen.

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