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Document number: 02446
Date: 29 Oct 1832
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 10th December 2010

My dear Henry

As you are at home by this time, I send you the enclosed that you may answer it yourself. I do not remember any picture of a Bishop in the Dormitory. Another Letter from Mr Awdry <1> has followed you to Markeaton. <2> Lord Ilchester <3> is expected to night in town a week. You will find Horatia & Mr F. <4> at Abbotsbury <5> – They remain there a fortnight & then go to Moreton. <6> Lord Belmore<7> comes to London with my Brother so there must I should think be room for you at Abbotsbury, if you will bend your steps thitherward. Horatia returns to Melbury again after Moreton. How I envy your being at the dear Old Abbey – If you had heard the tender manner in which Caroline <8> apostrophized it on your departure, when she took a last view of it! it was particularly touching after the vehement desire she had that her first born should be a native of its precincts, & which had cost her so much to give up. You will find the Duke of Richmond <9> has altered our Post office, Mr F wrote to you about it when you were wandering in text missing. <10>

Litchfield Cathedral must be beautiful to judge by your little view in the corner. Did you receive Caroline’s half letter? <11>

I will write to you every day while I think you are at Laycock, as you are in solitude & must want to be au courant. <12>

London Octr twenty-nine 1832 Valletort <13>
Henry Fox Talbot Esqre
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

1. Probably William Henry Awdry (1778–1847), solicitor, Chippenham. [See Doc. No: 02473].

2. Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire, NW of Derby: home of the Mundy family.

3. Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–1858).

4. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister, and Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.

5. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.

6. Moreton, Dorset: home of the Frampton family.

7. Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore (1774–1841), Governor of Jamaica.

8. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.

9. Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1791–1860), soldier and politician.

10. Text torn away under seal.

11. See Doc. No: 02440.

12. Up to date.

13. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law.