Eatington park
Sunday 25
Dear Sir
I received your present quite safe and like it very much I think it extermely handsome and shall find it very warm and comfortable I return you maney thanks for it I assure you I did not pass over your Birthday with out thinking of you and it is a great consolation to find you have not forgotten me eihter my being so long from you it was more than I could expect I am sorry to hear you are going abroad but am glad to find your mama and Mr Feilding <1> are going with you I shall be very happy toe see you And your Dear mama and your Sisters <2> before you lave England and as I think I must go to Town on a little Business I shall be greatly obliged if you will let me know when you think you shall be thare as noting can give me greater pleasure than to see you again I must tell you I heard your two Sisters were very much admired when they were in Dorsetshire I am very sorry to hear Mary <3> is Ill had you
Mrs Shirley youngest Child is two years old so that I am very happy and very comfortable
I reman Dear Sir your obedt Servant
Elizabeth Vickery
Henry Fox Talbot Esqr
Trinity College
Cambrige
Notes:
1. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother, and Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.
2. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister, and Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.
3. Probably Mary Thereza Talbot (1795–1861), WHFT’s cousin.