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Document number: 2662
Date: 25 Mar 1833
Postmark: 26 Mar 1833
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: EDGCUMBE Caroline Augusta, née Feilding
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA33(MW)-64
Last updated: 16th December 2010

Laycock Abbey
March 25th

My dear Henry,

I am very glad you are to be here Wednesday & I hope you will not put off your journey any longer that we may have a little time to enjoy you before we go – Our departure from hence is at last decisively fixed for Easter Monday – Ld Valletort <1> was to have gone to London last Saturday, to sell his horses, buy others, & make final preparations, but has most unluckily had a fit of the gout which has kept him in bed these two days – & I do not know when he will be able to set out – The Baby <2> is very much grown & in great beauty –

Pray bring with you Miss Edgeworth’s Practical Education <3> that I may look it over with Mamma <4> before I go – I do not want something about Men’s Professions by Mr Edgeworth, <5> which is generally sold with it. & bring also that little volume of Moore’s Melodies <6> – I am very glad it is found – Have you seen him in town? I am afraid he is in a bad way about the Irish Bill <7>

Addio caro fratellino <8>
Yr affte
Caroline

I hope Constance <9> will not forget the ivory ring for the Baby – it should be round not flat

M. P.
Henry Fox Talbot Esqr

31 Sackville Street
London


Notes:

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

2. William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl Mt Edgcumbe (1832-1917); 'Val'; JP & Lord Steward of the Royal Household; WHFT's nephew 'Bimbo'.

3. Maria Edgeworth, Essays on practical education (London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1822).

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

5. Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Essays on professional education (London: 1812).

6. Thomas Moore’s major poetic work Irish Melodies. [See Doc. No: 02148].

7. She probably refers to the Irish Reform Bill that took place in August 1832. [See Doc. No: 02396].

8. Goodbye dear brother.

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

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