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Document number: 03962
Date: Sun 27 Oct 1839
Dating: date? see 03963
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS William Thomas Horner Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 6th September 2010

Abb <1>
Sunday,

My dear Henry

The enclosed is sent me for you from Mr Dillwyn. <2> I have heard of your Camera at Dover my agent at F.O. <3> will look after it & send it to Sackville St. <4> when arrived.

This weather spoils all our flowers – Tropeolum tuberosum was in great beauty & Brugmansia rubra with 30 flowers out on it Everything is springing shooting & even flowering out of season – a sudden frost would be death –

I hope you had good weather for your tour – I go Tuesday to Melbury <5> to meet Mary <6> – I think your Rhus must be R. glabrum not elegans.

Ys aff
W F S

Notes:

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

2. Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778–1855), Welsh botanist & MP.

3. That is, the Foreign Office.

4. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.

5. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.

6. Mary Thereza Talbot (1795–1861), WHFT’s cousin.