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Document number: 5136
Date: Fri 1845
Dating: 1845?
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Mary Thereza
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 23rd September 2010

Lanelay <1>
Friday

Many thanks my dear Henry for your kind letter, <2> I am sure I should have enjoyed rambling about with you at Penrice <3> very very much and a storm you might have had certainly for it blew very hard one or two days, but the day Mamma & I went to Worm’s Head<4> it was as calm & sunny as any Summer’s day I longed for a scramble on the Head, but had business to transact & the shortness of the days would not have allowed me to enjoy it for any time if Mamma had had some one to keep her company on the Land whilst I was absent – Mary Anne <5> had returned to her own home to meet her school boys. –

Chrisrs <6> letters are really heart breaking he writes so despondingly, I do wish Jane <7> was with him tho’ I cannot wish her to be so far off besides she could not leave her own duties. Lucy <8> is much better she tells me & seeing her improve so much has (I conclude) made Chrisr more uneasy that Lady Charlotte <9> does not shew the same good from the change of climate I hope however when they have been a little longer at Malta she will get stronger & then she may lose her cough, the dear little Children were all well when we heard. –

Mamma is middling but thinking so much about them all is not good for her –

My kind love to all my Cousins great & small I hope they are all well as you do not say any thing to the contrary. –

In great haste your affate coz
Mary

We start again on Monday & are to be at Melbury <10> in a short time, I hope Aunt Lily & Horatia <11> will go there for Christmas I wish you were all to be there too.

Notes:

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

2. Letter not located.

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

4. Lady Mary Lucy Cole, née Strangways, first m. Talbot (1776–1855), WHFT’s aunt. Worm's Head is at the very end of the Gower Penninsula, south of Swansea.

5. Mary Anne Thackeray, née Shakespear (1793–1850).

6. Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician; WHFT’s Welsh cousin.

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

8. Probably daughter of Jane and John Nicholl.

9. Lady Charlotte Butler (1809–1846), wife of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot.

10. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.

11. 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.

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