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Document number: 6113
Date: Tue 22 Feb 1848
Dating: year from Doc no 06117
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: EDGCUMBE Caroline Augusta, née Feilding
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA48-15
Last updated: 2nd May 2012

[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Horatia - see Doc. No: 06112]

Palermo
Tuesday 22nd Feby

My dear Henry

The Locust came from Naples with despatches this morng & sails again in a minute. Ilted Nicholl <1> is on board, & as I knew he wd not have time to come on shore, I wrote to enquire abt Jane <2>, to whom Hor. <3> wrote some time ago, without eliciting any answer. She & all are well – Lucy <4> much better – They inhabit the Palazzo Torlonia al Corso, where they were two years ago. Mr Montgomerie <5> is also at Rome, No wonder cousins do not write when [illegible] take no notice of one. It is now 5 weeks since with infinite pains & trouble Horatia wrote you a long & most interesting letter from the Bulldog <6>, au fort de la Révolution <7>, & we thought we might hope for some small return now – I also wrote, & we have both continued to do so, whenever we have had opportunities – But naughty Henry – you are the only one who literally takes no sort of notice of any of us – any more than if we were beings of another sphere. Please do write a few lines yourself, to shew that you have not quite forgotten your Sisters – Constance <8> & A <9> have been much better correspondents – Horatia received a nice long letter from A– dated 12th four days after we landed. We are most anxious to know how Ste <10> is going on – Harriot’s <11> last report of him was better. – The Austrian frigate is just under way – She has been here several days, without one provision boat going near her! So that Captn Lushington <12> of the Vengeance <13> was obliged to supply her even with water. The Officers were warned not to come on shore at their peril. All is quiet – but Lord Minto <14> anxiously looked for. – Goodbye dear Henry – loves to all –

Yr affte Sister
Caroline

Enquire if Aunt Louisa <15> got mine of the 19th instant.

Notes:

1. Iltyd Thomas Mansel Nicholl (1828–1885), son of Jane Harriet Nicholl.

2. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874).

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

4. Lucy Mary Nicholl (1824-1876), of Merthyr Mawr.

5. Rev George Stephen Molyneux Montgomerie (1790–1850), artist, Norwich.

6. HMS Bulldog . [See Doc. No: 06087].

7. At the height of the Revolution.

8. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

9. Amélina Petit De Billier, ‘Mamie’, ‘Amandier’ (1798–1876), governess and later close friend of the Talbot family [See Amélina's journal].

10. Stephen Fox Strangways, Lord Stavordale (1817–1848), son of Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–1858).

11. Harriot Georgiana Mundy, née Frampton (1806-1886), WHFT’s cousin & sister-in-law.

12. Sir Stephen Lushington (1803–1877).

13. Gun ship launched in July 1824.

14. Elliot Murray, 2nd Earl of Minto (1782–1859), statesman.

15. Louisa Emma Petty Fitzmaurice, née Fox Strangways, Marchioness of Lansdowne (1785-1851), wife of Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne; Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, 1837-1838; WHFT's aunt.

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