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Document number: 2562
Date: 10 Jan 1833
Postmark: 10 Jan 1833
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Mary Thereza
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA33(MW)-2
Last updated: 7th December 2010

Penrice <1>

My dear Henry

I wish you would be so kind as to put the proper direction on Uncle Wm’s <2> letter & forward it to Mr Baudinel[?] I do not know now he has risen a step what fine title he may have. You may be sure I should have written to tell you of the expected change in our family when any of our friends were written to, but Uncle Harry <3> was the only person to whom Mamma <4> had said anything and as there is no time fixed for the marriage, we do not talk much about it; we are well acquainted with the lucky man who will be one of your cousins, and it is a pleasure to think how well suited he is to Emma <5> – and what a good Son & Brother he has always been, he is agreeable & well informed so with good temper & good principles they cannot fail to be happy. Mr Dillwyn <6> is so overjoyed I believe he thinks of nothing but his son’s happiness & Mrs Dillwyn too is just the same. We cannot but feel what we shall lose, it will be very strange to me to have no sister at home. I have had some seeds from Uncle Wm which you forwarded to me via Jane, <7> there is Lachenalia amongst them which I fear will be a long time coming to any thing. We have acconites [sic] & snowdrops in a great many places in the gardens besides the Erica Carnea & [illegible] I have also a nice row of Crocus pusillus in blow one is from Florence, striped like Scotch, the others are buff outside & lilac inside. – Don’t forget some day to give me a root of your Allium subhirsutum according to an ancient promise. I hope I have remembered the right name it is a delicate white flower & the green leaves are hairy along the edge. Our kind love to all I am in haste

your affate coz Mary.

Mamma pretty we[ll]<8>

W. H. Fox Talbot Esqre MP.
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts


Notes:

1. Penrice Castle and Penrice House, Gower, Glamorgan, 10 mi SW of Swansea: home of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot.

2. William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (1795–1865), botanist, art collector & diplomat.

3. Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–1858).

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

5. John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810–1882), Welsh photographer, JP & High Sheriff, and Emma Thomasina Llewelyn, née Talbot (1806–1881), photographer; WHFT’s Welsh cousin.

6. Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778–1855), Welsh botanist & MP.

7. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874).

8. Text obscured under seal.

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