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Document number: 04875
Date: Wed 06 Sep 1843
Recipient: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA43-76
Last updated: 21st July 2012

Oxford,
Wedny 6 Sept – 1843.

My Dear Mother

When you left me at Steventon I procured a conveyance, but got out at Abingdon and walked from thence to Oxford in the cool of the evening – part of the way lies thro’ a pretty forest – the distance is seven miles. The weather has been exceedingly fine both Monday, Tuesday & today, and I have made about twenty views each day, some of which are very pretty – but the number of picturesque points of view seems almost inexhaustible, and I think tomorrow evening I shall return to Town where I hope to find letters from you & Constance.

Perhaps I may be able to convoy [sic] Horatia <1> on Saturday to Lacock

Your affte
Henry

Notes:

1. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.