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Document number: 01648
Date: Sun 09 Feb 1823
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 23rd January 2012

[written on the same sheet as notes from Capt Feilding: see Doc. No: 01651 - and Horatia: see Doc. No: 01053]

Roma
Febbrajo 1823 Domenica <1>

Probably your letter <2> from Mola di Gæta was sent by some private hand, for it came after the one from Naples & had no post mark of any kind. I send you by this post Two from England.

Lady W. <3> is extremely ill. after persuading Lady Charlotte Lindsay <4> to dine with Mrs Palliser, she quarrelled with her & wanted Lady C. to send an excuse, saying she was a horrid woman, but you remember her writing me a note in which she called Mrs P. a sweet woman! It appears she is angry with her for having made it up with Mrs B. <5> & now she will quarrel with Lady C for not quarrelling with Mrs P. She will quarrel with Lady C – It was a paysanne du Tyrol <6> at the Bal Masqué. Peasants of all countries abunded. Tomorrow is the moccoli <7> on putting out the Carnival at Sun set.

Mr
Mons. Henri Fox Talbot
Inglesé
Posta restante
Napoli

Notes:

1. Sunday.

2. See Doc. No: 01049.

3. Jane Saunders, Lady Westmorland (d. 1857).

4. Charlotte Susanna Elizabeth Bertie, née Layard, Lady Lindsey (1780–1858).

5. Possibly Mrs Bligh. [See Doc. No: 00963].

6. A Tyrolean peasant woman.

7. The Festa dei Moccoli was part of the Italian Carnival tradition when, on Mardi Gras, people would go out in the streets carrying candles and the game was to try and extinguish as many as possible.