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Document number: 3088
Date: 21 May 1835
Dating: 1835 confirmed by birth of Ela
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Mary Thereza
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA35(MW)-31
Last updated: 20th February 2012

Penllergaer <1>
May 21

My dear Henry

It was with great pleasure we heard a confirmed good report of the amendment in your precious wife’s <2> health. I need not tell you how sincerely we have felt for you in all your anxieties on her account for the last few weeks and if you have not too much writing to do I should be very glad to have a line from you to tell me about the dear Babe <3> and its mother. This fine weather will strengthen her I hope and do you all good. – I am sure you will be glad to hear that Mamma <4> is very well and able to work in her garden daily, the rain brought her indoors last week but it did so much good to the gardens that we were quite glad of it. Our soil is thirsty at all times. – I have got a great many plants sent to me which delight me (in spite of being against novelty in general) they are old fashioned ones I really believe. One is the Anemone palinata a brilliant yellow, two blossoms on a stalk but not coming to perfection together, the Trillium grandiflorum a snow white I remember seeing it once years ago in the Hort. Garden it lasts in flower a long time & I have longed for it this age, this is the first year I have had it. The Phlox verna which is a lovely rose colour & spreads about famously but the slugs are particularly fond of the flowers unluckily & of them we have numbers this year. The Calceolaria pendula from seed which is certainly the handsomest I have ever seen. Emma <5> has one which has at this moment 105 blossoms in perfection it is quite a sight. They have raised a great number at Penllergaer & also of Mimulus, very fine indeed both for size and colours, brilliant red spots on all but a great variety. They have a passion for heartsease & certainly excel any one in the neighborhood for size and beauty, they are very generous gardeners & bestow some of their best on us so we are lucky to have them such near neighbors!! We have some pots full of plants just came up from seed you gave mamma one is Lupinus nana which is a very delicate looking plant, another is the Phacelia tanacitifolia (I hope I don’t betray my ignorance by my spelling) it looks as if it should be a very pretty growing plant– Good bye & all join in [illegible] love

I remain your affte con
Mary T.

I should be very glad to hear how Horatia <6> is & whether Aunt Lily <7> &c are coming home this summer also where Caroline <8> is now? – at your leisure an account of them would be very acceptable

H. Fox Talbot Esqre
31 Sackville Street

Notes:

1. Penllergaer, Glamorgan, 5 mi E of Loughor: home of the Llewelyn family.

2. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

3. Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1st daughter.

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

5. Emma Thomasina Llewelyn, née Talbot (1806–1881), photographer; WHFT’s Welsh cousin.

6. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.

7. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.

8. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.

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