London 9^th August

My dear Henry

I hope you are well. we came from Barming last Tuesday. I hope Aunt Mary ^<1> and all my Cousins ^<2> are well. Is it not very pleasant at Penrice ^<3> this fine weather.

We are to begin to learn to dance tomorrow Miss Rae ^<4> is coming to teach us. Papa ^<5> has given Horatia ^<6> and me two pretty toys mine is a gig and horse and Horatia’s is a Donkey.

I send you my love and a kiss and so does Horatia

I am your affectionate Sister
C A Feilding

Mama ^<7> wishes you to write to her.

London Sept^r thirteen 1815
Hen^y Fox Talbot Esq
R Penrice
Swansea
Auckland

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Notes:

1. Lady Mary Lucy Cole, née Strangways, first m. Talbot (1776–1855), WHFT’s aunt.

2. Mary Thereza Talbot (1795–1861), WHFT’s cousin; Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874); Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician and WHFT’s Welsh cousin; Emma Thomasina Llewelyn, née Talbot (1806–1881), photographer and WHFT’s Welsh cousin; Isabella Catherine Franklen, née Talbot (1804–1874).

3. Penrice Castle and Penrice House, Gower, Glamorgan, 10 mi SW of Swansea: home of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot

4. Dance teacher. [See Doc. No: 00639].

5. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.

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

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