[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Lady Elisabeth - see Doc. No: 03374]
Laycock Abbey
2nd March
My dear Henry
I send you a sketch for the window; some are of opinion it is too small for external beauty but if it was any larger, I am afraid it wd weaken the wall inside; that is if the recess was a continuation of the same circle, which
[illustration]
is what I intended; however it is very easy to make one on a larger scale. I do not much like the corbling [sic] & ornaments at the top, or the clipping buttress; but if you approve of the sort of window, I can look out for something better. – I like the lower corbling very much as well as the blank space, between it & the lights, as that is necessary to give it lightness. – Papa <1> desires me to say he advises you very much, if you do not want your pony till the summer, to turn him out at Hayward’s <2> for 3 or 4 months; it will do him a great deal of good; he consulted Hayward, who is of the same opinion –
Yrs affly
Caroline
W. Henry Fox Talbot Esqr
31 Sackville Street
London
Notes:
1. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.
2. Probably Thomas Hayward (b. 1783), tenant farmer, Wick Farm, Lacock.