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Document number: 6698
Date: 02 Nov 1852
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Mary Thereza
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 7th March 2012

Margam
Novr 2d

My dear Henry

your little scrap was very acceptable & I hope Ld Mt Edgecumbe [sic] will go on improving daily. this damp weather I fear will not exactly suit him tho’ it is not cold by any means. –

Louisa Gallwey is with us (at Margam) now for a few days and has some very pretty sketches she made at Mt Edgecumbe when she was there in the Summer she enjoyed her visit very much indeed. –

In return for your Garden lists, I shall send you word what pleased Emma at the Exeter Nursery Gardens they went to Prince’s first & saw their Orchises a very fine Witsenia corymbosa shrubby sea Lavender & a new Fuschia with many other shew plants. at Veitchs they admired many things, particularly Lepigerea rosea, a Patagonian plant a creeper supposed to be hardy a lovely bright pink all over long spots of white & nearly the size of a white Lily Tropeolum specimen a scarlet Canarybird creeper. – Ceanothus rigidus a shrub & – [illegible] Pernettia speciosa all over lilac berries, Lomaria Antarctica a new Hardy fern sent home by Lobb & several un-named plants of his importing too. they made acquaintance with old Mr Veitch & in the course of conversation found he had been paying a visit to a Clergyman who was living at Oxwich last year & had been down to see Worms Head? he admires fine scenery very much & his wife was a friend of Mrs Gibbs’s so that took them to Oxwich – We came here last Saty it has been two days to go and except to Church on Sunday but I am surprised to see the Geraniums on the Terace [sic] still in beauty & the Dahlias in the flower pot looking quite fresh which ours have been black ever since the 9th of last month so those in many other Gardens too. – Isabella hopes to return home in a day or two now, I had a good account of the whole of all the party they are delighted at the thoughts of getting home again. –

With our kind love to all I am your affate coz Mary

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