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Document number: 8788
Date: Thu 14 Jan 1864
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Rosamond Constance
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: Acc 22537 [envelope only]
Collection number historic: LA64-3
Last updated: 18th April 2012

Edinburgh.
Thursday Jan. 14th

My dear Papa,

I have been wishing to write to you for some days, but didn’t like to do so without knowing for certain that you were still in London; and Mama bids me thank you for your letter of this morning, which she was glad to get, as we were beginning to think that you might be laid up with a bad cold.

The thaw here began on Saturday, when the weather turned gloomy and mild, but these two days it has been fine though very sloppy and dirty in the streets. I had a cheerful letter from Charles this morning, who seems to be getting on well. He complains of having been very cold, in his room without a fire, as the smoke made it impossible to light one, and with thick ice all day in the Jugs. But Aunt Caroline and Ernestine seem to have fared the worse, as they happened to set out on their journey on the very day the severe frost began, and so got it all on the road. They were so cold on board the steamer that they almost lost the use of their feet, which felt as if frostbitten; and in Paris, where they had the bad luck to be miserably lodged, the weather was so severe that they were not able to go out or see anything. The same story all along their route; nothing but frost and snow, and huge blocks of ice on all the rivers, so that poor Ernestine cannot have had much enjoyment in seeing all these new places. She – Aunt C. wrote from Geneva, where they had gone, though so much out of the way, to spend one day with Mlle Mosché, and expected to reach Cannes the following day, that is to say last Friday.

Mama heard from Aunt Harriet this morning that poor Uncle Mundy has met with an accident which will make him lame for some time. In walking home from Derby a few days ago he broke the Tendon d’Achilles of one of his heels. He got home with some difficulty, and now is obliged to be wheeled about the house in a chair. It seems he had a similar accident some years ago. We have no less than 3 invitations for tonight; a dinner and 2 evening parties, but I do not know whether we shall accomplish them all, though we mean to try. Mamie is keeping her room, with the remains of a cold, which has been a general complaint throughout the house, nobody except Ela escaping. Tilly and her household seem to have been lucky, and Dabton must be a mild and sheltered place, as she has not complained at all of any inconvenience from the cold. With love from all,

Your affectionate daughter
Rosamond.

I am afraid you must find it very tedious to be detained so long in London.

[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esqre
Athenæum Club
London
W.

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