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Document number: 08218
Date: 16 Oct 1860
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS William Thomas Horner Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 15th July 2010

31 B. St. <1>
Octr 16

My dear Henry

We are here till Saturday – are you likely to be in town? we shall be at Melbury <2> the middle of next week after a visit or two.

I do not know if you went to Carclew <3> or not – but you probably found rain wherever you went. Is it not a rivalry between Devonshire & Westmoreland which is the rainiest climate?

We are likely to be all November at Abbotsbury <4> – are you likely to be at liberty to pay us a visit there?

I hope Matilda <5> has recovered her health – & does not give you further anxiety.

Are all the family now at Lacock? or you alone? Where can one see your own account of the Eclipse? <6>

Yr Affte
Wm

Envelope:

Henry F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

1. 31 Burlington Street, London home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.

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

3. Carclew, Cornwall, 3 mi N of Penryn: seat of Sir Charles Lemon. see Doc. No: 08194.

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

5. Matilda Caroline Gilchrist-Clark, ‘Tilly’, née Talbot (1839–1927), WHFT’s 3rd daughter.

6. The solar eclipse of 18 July 1860, observed by WHFT in Spain. See Doc. No: 08157.