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Document number: 02131
Date: 28 Jan 1831
Postmark: 28 Jan 1831
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 20025
Last updated: 21st June 2010

Brighton
28th January 1831 <1>

My dear Henry

Dogmersfield is full therefore we shall not go there, but by London instead, & reach Laycock either Thursday, Friday or Wednesday perhaps tho’ that is not likely, as we leave this Tuesday. Our dinner yesterday & Soirée went off d’une manière éclatante <2> they said Brighton wd go into mourning on our departure.

What a day you had yesterday for yr journey! We thought you would be blown into the Sea, & must have wished yourself peaceably back in Brunswick Terrace, sitting between Mrs Norton <3> & Charles Fox at dinner. We are now in all the agonies of dressing for the Pavilion, dining as usual too late

So good Night

Pray take care to make them warm the house well for us

[envelope]
Brighton January twenty Eight 1831
Henry Fox Talbot Eqr
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts

Notes:

1. Written in another hand.

2. Brilliantly.

3. Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–1877), poet, novelist.