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Document number: 02857
Date: Thu 20 Mar 1834
Postmark: 21 Mar 1834
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA34(MW)-43
Last updated: 22nd January 2012

[written on the same sheet as a letter from Horatia - see Doc. No: 03942]

Thursday

My Dear Henry

In case you come Saturday this is to tell you there are Flies to be had at Melksham <1> which I believe are much cheaper than chaises. Lady Kerry’s <2> wedding cake <3> is just arrived

Yrs
EF

W. Henry Fox Talbot Esqre M.P.
31 Sackville Street
London

Notes:

1. Melksham, Wiltshire: market town near Lacock, 2 miles S.

2. Lady Augusta Lavinia Priscilla Fitzmaurice, née Ponsonby (1814–1904); she became Lady Kerry when she married the Earl of Kerry on 18 March 1834.

3. The gift of a small piece after the wedding.