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Document number: 711
Date: 18 Aug 1818
Dating: HW date impossible by watermark; see 00811, 00813, 00815, 00816
Harold White: 1816
Watermark: 1817
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA16-31
Last updated: 1st June 2010

Burley on the Hill <1>
August 18th <2>

My Dear Henry

Owing to your giving me no direction after Wallington, <3> all the letters I wrote you from London have been returned to me, & I now doubt your getting this before you leave Chester therefore will say nothing but that we are alive & if you will tell me where you are going you shall hear au long <4> from your affectionate

E T F

William Henry Talbot Esqre
Penrice Castle
Swansea Chester
South Wales


Notes:

1. Burley on the Hill, near Oakham, Rutland.

2. 1818. [See Doc. No: 00811, Doc. No: 00813, Doc. No: 00815, and Doc. No: 00816.]

3. Wallington, Northumberland, the home of Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet (1797–1879), naturalist & antiquary.

4. At full length.

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