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Document number: 6212
Date: 14 Feb 1849
Harold White: 14 Feb 1849
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: EDGCUMBE Caroline Augusta, née Feilding
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA49-006
Last updated: 1st September 2003

My dear Henry

In a great hurry I write a line with the Sketch, to recommend it to yr notice – It is much prettier than many I have seen by the great sculptors, & only 150 Scudi, wh is half the original price, owing to the hard times wh weigh heavily on the 2nd rate Artists. It is a good size for the situation – about I shd say 1ft & half high in the highest part – without prétention & yet very pretty – The childs figure is particularly graceful & prettyier in the rilievo than the drawing – We had thought the same sort of boy’s figure with another weeping over an urn wd be also pretty – & I cd ask him for a sketch – but that wd be probably double the price as this one is ready – & that wd have to be made on purpose –

Yrs affly

Caroline

Write quickly – the present subject is more original than the urn –
All quiet here

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