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Document number: 1443
Date: 11 Feb 1827
Postmark: Feb 1827
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: EDGCUMBE Caroline Augusta, née Feilding
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 7th March 2012

Brighton
11th February

My dear Henry

I thank you for having thought of me on my birthday, & wish you many happy returns of your own, which I think you cannot fail in passing in a pleasanter manner at Berlin, than I did at Dover, which is never a very interesting place & particularly in the depth of winter after a very rough passage. – Mama <1> had a letter lately from Kit <2>; he has laid up his yacht in ordinary for the winter [missing text]<3> still at Naples which he does not s[illegible] to leave soon, as he is quite enchanted with it. He expects Uncle John <4> there, as it appears from his last account that he was at Alexandria only waiting for a convoy to return to England. I am delighted to find that the Greeks have lately gained several victories, <5> in one of which three of the principal Boys were killed; & it is reported that the same fate has befallen Reschid Pacha <6>. Fabier <7> has likewise made himself master of the Acropolis of Athens & Miaulis <8> has defeated the Turkish fleet. – I am just now reading a very interesting book lent me by M. Koreff; “ Histoire de la Régénération de la Grèce <9>” par Mr de Pouqueville <10> – Addio, carissimo fratello, <11> write to me again soon &

believe me your affectionate
Sister Caroline Augusta.

Kit has had his opened by a namesake

Monsr W. H. F. Talbot
Post restante
Berlin
[illegible deletion]
Bruxelles
en Prusse


Notes:

1. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.

2. Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician; WHFT’s Welsh cousin.

3. Text obscured under seal.

4. John George Charles Fox Strangways (1803–1859), MP.

5. The latest victory was at Distomo over Omar Vrioni and secured the restoration to the Greek cause of all continental Greece, except the towns which were held by the Turks.

6. Misspelling of Reshid Pasha (1800–1858), Turkish statesman and diplomat.

7. There had been an attempt to relieve the Acropolis, with the assistance of some troops under the French Colonel Fabvier.

8. Andreas Miaoulis (1768–1835), Greek admiral and politician.

9. François Charles Hugues Laurent Pouqueville, Histoire de la régénération de la Grèce, comprenant le précis des évènements depuis 1740 jusquen 1824 (Paris: F. Didot père et fils, 1824).

10. François Charles Hugues Laurent Pouqueville (1770–1838).

11. Goodbye, dearest brother.

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