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Document number: 01267
Date: Mon 30 Jun 1828
Postmark: 30 Jun 1828
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Charles
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA28-4
Last updated: 23rd January 2012

[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Amélina - see Doc. No: 01686]

My dear Henry.

If Gwynne <1> had not been detained at Chippenham <2> & I had heard of this wretched affair in time for the Morning Coach I should certainly have gone to you – for I think it must have been a severe shock to you – & though I could not have done much good still it might have been some comfort to you to have me to talk to –

Poor Reading <3> how I pity him, & his wretched wife who I hear is in bad health – I can conceive nothing so horrid as their failings I cannot but be glad your Mother & sisters <4> were all there – you will very likely not receive this letter if you come by the early coach so I will only say that they are all better & my gout on the mend –

God bless you
C.F.

Monday

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham.

Notes:

1. Mrs Gwynne (d. winter 1841/1842), lady’s maid, cook and housekeeper to Elisabeth Feilding.

2. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.

3. David Reading, builder, working on Lacock Abbey.

4. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother, Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister, and Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.