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Document number: 03550
Date: 15 Aug 1837
Dating: 1837?
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA37-39
Last updated: 12th February 2012

Richmond Hill
16 august

My Dear Henry

I do not wish to keep you at Laycock but only that Constance <1> Should know where to send any letter for you; or that you should keep some of us au courant <2> of your mouvements [sic] in Glamorganshire, as perhaps a letter would reach you quicker in that way. We are in such a dreadful state of uncertainty that I know not what to say or to think, he <3> is not so well as a week ago but yet is better than he was yesterday. As it is on real business you are going into Wales, & must wish to be settled in some house before the winter, I do not like to stop your going but only that we should know exactly each day where a letter may find you – He is convinced himself that it cannot go on, from his own feelings of excessive weakness, but the Doctors say a patient is no judge of that. He is averse to being moved back to London & indeed he hardly could be moved

Henry Fox Talbot Esqr
Laycock abbey
Chippenham
Wilts

Notes:

1. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

2. Up to date.

3. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.