Marazion
Oct^r 22^d

My dear Henry

I write to you at Lacock for the chance of finding you at home for I never hear where you are. – Coming into this County and seeing so many places we formerly visited together makes me think of you in particular, the land of “Tree won’t grow” ^<1> looks as usual and the beautiful Mount ^<2> remains undisturbed by the modern improvements which have changed so many places in the last few years; I have not yet seen Brown Willy or any of our favourite hills but before we leave Cornwall I suppose we shall travel from one end to the other. We came from Bristol by the Hayle Packet & found our selves within 8 miles of this place when we landed, but having a rough passage & being 25 hours on board the Packet was paying dear I think we have been here since last Saturday & Mamma ^<3> has not yet recovered her sea voyage but I am quite chasing.

We shall remain here another week at least, & then intend paying a visit at Carclew ^<4> but I do not know when we shall be there.

If you have any “scraps” of Photographs I should be very much obliged for one or two several people seem to me to be in the dark about it & I have none here to shew. I prevailed on myself to give away two or three to a friend of ours who was fully sensible of the favour & had never seen any before (M^rs Whitby) –

My love to M^rs Talbot & the Child^{n <5>} – Aunt Lily & Horatia ^<6> if at home. –

I am your aff^cte coz.
Mary

What are you busy about now? – I am glad your duties as Sheriff were not augmented by any election. I suppose you will be quit of it all very soon now. –
Mamma sends her love.

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Envelope:

Henry Fox Talbot Esq^{re <7>}
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts

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Notes:

1. A play on Cornish place names. [See Doc. No: 00105].

2. St Michael’s Mount.

3. Lady Mary Lucy Cole, née Fox Strangways; (1776- 3 Feb 1855); married Thomas Mansel Talbot in 1794; married Capt Sir Christopher Cole (d. 1836) in 1815; WHFT's aunt.

4. Carclew, Cornwall, 3 mi N of Penryn: seat of Sir Charles Lemon.

5. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife; Ela Theresa Talbot (25 Apr 1835 - 25 Apr 1893), WHFT's 1^st daughter; Rosamond Constance Talbot (16 Mar 1837 - 7 May 1906), 'Rose'; 'Monie'; artist & WHFT's 2^nd daughter; died & buried at San Remo, Italy, with a memorial at Lacock; Matilda Caroline Gilchrist-Clark, née Talbot (25 Feb 1839-1927), 'Tilly', WHFT's 3^rd daughter.

6. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother, and Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.

7. The envelope was offered on ebay in October 2002 but its present whereabouts is unknown.