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Document number: 00823
Date: 09 Oct 1818
Postmark: 11 Oct 1818
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Charles
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA18-32
Last updated: 6th December 2010

Lowther <1>
9 Octr

My dear Henry -

You are by this time I conclude settled at Cambridge <2> - having had by your Mothers <3> accounts a very pleasant Tour - you were fortunate in the season there never was so fine a summer known in these parts - I am proceeding on a Tour also but have not chosen so good a season quite to [illegible] I am going as far as Drumlanrig <4> & as neither Copley <5> or I have ever seen either of them, we think of going by Glasgow & Edingh all this I think I told you before. I shall be delayed longer in the North than I expected & it will be the end of November before I visit you at Cambr - but I hope to hear from you in the mean time that Mr Bonney's <6> predictions have been fulfilled, & that you have found your sejour <7> more agreeable, & your society more sought after by the sort of people with whom you wd like to live. I am anxious to hear you feel comfortably settled again. Is there anything you want? - You have no idea how disagreeably high the spiritf of party runs in these counties - it is particularly unpleasant to me, linked as I am to them both by the ties of friendship - however I have got through it very well, & on Wednesday I set forth - direct to me at Carlisle from whence my letters will be forwarded to me. I have been often struck with the view you mention of the mountains about the lakes from the Carlisle Road - it is particularly fine about 2 miles from Penrith <8> - I went to the Moors yesterday but the birds were so wild I did not get a single shot - en revanche <9> I killed 11 brace of Partridges in my way home - missing only 3 or 4 shots - I expect at the Duke of B. <10> to get some famous black game shooting of which I shall send you an account - Pray write to me & Believe me

Yr most affe Friend
C.F.

We think of going among the Islands & to Lough [sic] Lomond in a very unromantic but very convenient way, a steam boat. From Glasgow to Inverary you go in 12 hours which used to be an amazing operation -

Penrith October Eleven 1818 Free H.C. Lowther <11>
Henry Talbot Esqr
Trin: Coll:
Cambridge

Notes:

1. Township 4 miles south of Penrith, passed to Lowthers who became Earls of Lonsdale.

2. Trinity College, Cambridge.

3. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773-1846), WHFT's mother.

4. Seat of the Duke of Buccleuch in Dumfriesshire.

5. Sir Joseph Copley (1762-1838), of Sprotborough Hall.

6. Thomas Kaye Bonney (1782-1863), Archdeacon of Leicester.

7. Stay.

8. Penrice Castle and Penrice House, Gower, Glamorgan, 10 mi SW of Swansea: home of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot.

9. In revenge.

10. Charles William Henry Douglas-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch, 6th Duke of Queensberry (1772-1819).

11. Henry Cecil Lowther (1790-1867), M.P. for Westmorland.