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Document number: 2382
Date: 18 Sep 1876
Dating: confirmed by Doc no 02368
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TRAHERNE Charlotte Louisa, née Talbot
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 2nd May 2012

Coedriglan
Cardiff
Sept 18h

My dear Henry

I quite enter into your feelings about Mlle Amelina, <1> whose death I saw in the Paper today after I wrote to you – this faithful friend & companion of so many years and you will all feel her blank in your family circle caused by the cessation of so many little mutual good offices which make the charm & comfort of home life – this year has been one of many & sad changes in our family – dear Lucy Nicholl <2> died in March, & in June our dear Theodore <3> whose loss is daily deplored in our County when he was so good, kind & useful – his poor father is I hope getting a little better from the sea air as he & Emily <4> are yatching [sic] in the Channel whilst Olive is at Dover in a very precarious state which has gone on so long that we cannot help hoping she may get better – After living fourteen years at St Hiloy during which time I let Coedriglan I am come back here, because I found a difficulty in getting a tenant – & I have let St Hiloy to two of my nephews Rice & Spencer Nicholl – they think it charming – Rice has a wife & five little children & they enjoy the garden. Rice is very fond of gardening & works hard himself in it – here my garden is spoiled but I am rather fond of doing & making – so I have begun in the wood remaking my old walks & shall proceed to re-plant the garden – the only things left in it besides evergreens & shrubs are Mediterranean Heath & Gaultheria Shallon which is a vy large plant

Yours affly
Charlotte Traherne


Notes:

1. Amélina Petit De Billier, ‘Mamie’, ‘Amandier’ (1798–1876), governess and later close friend of the Talbot family [See Amélina's journal].

2. Lucy Mary Nicholl (1824-1876), of Merthyr Mawr.

3. Theodore Mansel Talbot (1839–1876), WHFT’s Welsh nephew.

4. Emily Charlotte Talbot (1840-1918), 1st daughter of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician, WHFT’s Welsh cousin.

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