[On light mourning paper with engraved address - the envelope is also outlined in black]
39, Belgrave Square, S.W.
April 9
My dear Henry,
Both Caroline <1> & I think you will like to possess one of the Engravings from the picture of my dear Father,<2> which Linnell<3> painted some years ago – will you tell us how it shall be forwarded to you? or if you would prefer our keeping it till you are come to town?
With love to Constance <4>
Believe me Yrs very sincerely
Theresa Digby
[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esq
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. Her older sister, Caroline Margaret Kerrison, née Fox Strangways (d. 1895); they were both cousins of WHFT.
2. Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 'Harry', 3rd Earl of Ilchester (1787- 3 January 1858); WHFT's uncle
3. John Linnell (1792-1882), landscape and portrait painter and engraver.
4. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (30 Jan 1811 - 9 Sep 1880), m. WHFT 20 Dec 1832.