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Document number: 08194
Date: 14 Sep 1860
Dating: 1860?
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS William Thomas Horner Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA60-079
Last updated: 26th February 2010

Moreton <1>
14 Septr

My dear Henry

Your letter followed me here from Carclew. <2> I have only time to say he <3> will I am sure be glad of a visit from you – I have never seen him so well since his illness – he does not move from home so you are sure to find him & his niece Miss Dyke <4> there.

I wish we were not going to Lincolnshire <5> next week or I should hope for [a] visit from you going or coming This place is wonderfully improved since you saw it .

You had an interesting trip into Spain <6> but I have not time to enter into that

Yr Affte
Wm

Notes:

1. Moreton, Dorset: home of the Frampton family.

2. Carclew, Cornwall, 3 mi N of Penryn: seat of Sir Charles Lemon.

3. Sir Charles Lemon (1784–1868), politician & scientist; WHFT’s uncle.

4. A daughter of Sir Charles Lemon’s sister, Mrs Dyke. See Doc. No: 01243.

5. WTHFS’s parents-in-law lived at Normanby Park, Lincolnshire; Sir Robert Sheffield, 4th Baronet (1786-1862) and Lady Julia Brigidia Sheffield, née Newbould (1800-1875).

6. To observe the solar eclipse of 18 July 1860.