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Document number: 2226
Date: 03 Sep 1831
Postmark: 7 Sep 1831
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: WORSLEY Thomas
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 2nd March 2016

My Dear Talbot

Your note <1> having gone round Via Cambridge & reached me thro’ Sundry Cross-posts will I am afraid delay my answer beyond the time of your departure northward. I should have liked a tour among lakes & mountains with you very much but I am now on a visit to my Mother for a month & as I have been away from home all the long vacation & the family are most of them assembled there are too many devices going on to be easily given up – I spent two months very pleasantly at Bowood <2> when cricket & Plato drove politics out of the field. The latter however prevail here & the & the union of a discussion as to the future representation for the N Y North R <3> of Yorks in the mouth of an aspirant to that honour & his requisitionists drive me to a Conclusion

I admire Lacock particularly & hope hereafter to see you in Situ

Ever yours
Thos W

Hovingham Hall <4>
Septr 3 1831

W. H. Fox Talbot Esqr
31 Sackville Street
London


Notes:

1. Not located.

2. Bowood House, nr Calne, Wiltshire, 5 mi NE of Lacock: seat of the Marquess of Lansdowne.

3. Riding, one of the three ridings of York.

4. Hovingham, North Yorkshire, family estate of the Worsley family.

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