[fragment - see note 8]
Sackville Street <1>
October 22nd
My dear Henry
I am charmed with your romantic descriptions, & should have answered your amusing letter <2> from Capel Cerrig sooner, if I had more time - but somehow it flies now just as quick as ever it did - There are more people in London than I expected - Niemcewicz & Count Zamoisky <3> have dined with us, & Uncle John <4> has just arrived - Ld Lansdowne <5> also is here - my Aunt <6> is coming very soon, when they go to Paris to meet Kerry <7> -
[letter stops here]<8>
[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot
Markeaton
Derby
Notes:
1. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.
2. Letter not located.
3. Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1757-1841), Polish scholar, poet and statesman and Adjutant to Kosciusko in the fighting against the Russians [see Doc. No: 02399 and Doc. No: 02409] and Count Wladyslaw Zamoyski (1803-1868), Polish patriot who came to live in London, where he was involved in the emigré organisation set up by his uncle, Prince Adam Czartoryski, to work for a free Poland. He is mentioned in the Correspondence particularly during the early 1830s.
4. John George Charles Fox Strangways (1803-1859), MP.
5. Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863), MP, WHFT's uncle.
6. 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.
7. William Thomas Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry (1811-1836), MP.
8. This letter was sent incomplete - referred to as a 'half letter' by Lady Elisabeth, WHFT's mother, on 29 October in Doc. No: 02446] Caroline Edgcumbe is puzzled as to why her mother sent it in this form, conveyed in completed form to WHFT in Doc. No: 02449.