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Document number: 2481
Date: 27 Nov 1832
Dating: confirmed by birth of child
Postmark: 27 Nov 1832
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: EDGCUMBE Caroline Augusta, née Feilding
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 20090
Collection number historic: LA32-73
Last updated: 20th December 2010

Sackville St <1>
Novr 27th

My dearest Henry

My first letter I wrote to Horatia, comme de droit; <2> I inscribe this, my very next to you, to congratulate you upon your present happiness & future prospects – though I have never even seen Constance, <3> I have too good an opinion of your taste & judgement not to believe her entirely worthy of you & capable of making you as happy as you deserve, which I hope with all my heart she may long continue to do – & I am sure she will find in you the kindest of husbands as you have always been the best of sons & brothers – I am delighted to hear we are to see you so soon & I hope very much to see Constance & make acquaintance with her before we leave town, which I suppose will be in a fortnight or three weeks –

Ld Lansdowne <4> has consented in the most amiable manner to be Godfather with the King, <5> & Lady Suffield <6> is to be Godmother – My Baby <7> is quite well & grows à vue d’œil <8> – I have been down stairs twice & have some hopes of going out in the carriage this week, if the weather is tolerable –

Aunt Louisa <9> & Lord Lansdowne arrived Sunday from Paris – she came to see me yesterday – I never saw her so animated – she set off this morning to Bowood <10> for Kerry’s <11> election –

Addio carissimo fratello mio <12>
Ever your most affte sister
Caroline

Pray thank Harriot <13> for the beautiful cap she sent my Baby, & tell her it is extremely becoming – Lebe wohl <14>

[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot r
Markeaton
Derby


Notes:

1. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT

2. As of right.

3. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

4. Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780–1863), MP, WHFT’s uncle.

5. William IV (1765–1837), King of England (1830–1837).

6. Probably Emily, wife of Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield. [See Doc. No: 02470].

7. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law.

8. In front of your very eyes.

9. 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.

10. Bowood House, nr Calne, Wiltshire, 5 mi NE of Lacock: seat of the Marquess of Lansdowne

11. William Thomas Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry (1811–1836), MP.

12. Good bye my dearest brother

13. Harriot Georgiana Mundy, née Frampton (1806-1886), WHFT’s cousin & sister-in-law.

14. Keep well.

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