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Document number: 03215
Date: 28 Feb 1830
Postmark: 1 Mar 1830
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: EDGCUMBE Caroline Augusta, née Feilding
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA30-11
Last updated: 25th January 2012

[this is written on the same sheet as notes from Lady Elisabeth: Doc. No: 01963 - and William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways Doc. No: 03214.]

Laycock Abbey

28th February

My dear Henry –

If you are determined to build this year, may we have a bit of the pannelling taken down in the gallery to see exactly where the secret staircase comes; it does not signify whether that is done sooner or later; if sooner, tant mieux then we shall see it before we go –

Yrs affly
Caroline

[A sketch of a portion of the proposed South Front is drawn on the rear inside page, with the caption:]
Height from top of Balustrade to the ground – [illegible deletion] 37 ft. [illegible deletion] 2 inches

[Address panel:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esq
31 Sackville Street
London


Notes:

1. So much the better.