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Document number: 00794
Date: 21 Apr 1818
Postmark: 21 Apr 1818
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Charles
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA18-10
Last updated: 1st August 2010

Ap: 21 1818

My dear Henry

I hope you received your parcel. Your Mother <1> continues very unwell – but I am in hope a few days more will make a great change in her for the better pray write to her – she will like to hear from you on her sick bed.

God bless you
C. F.

London April twenty one 1818 Auckland. <2>
Hy Fx Talbot Esqre

Trin. Coll.
Cambridge.

Notes:

1. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.

2. George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784–1849), Governor General of India.