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Document number: 111
Date: Wed
Dating: must be 1837 or later - Lady in Waiting
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 30th April 2011

Wednesday

My Dear Henry

Your Uncle J. <1> called yesterday soon after you were gone, and I told him how sorry I was that Mr Berens <2> was absent from Oxford upon which he went in search of him & did more for you than you did for yourself for he found him – & Mr Berens called here afterwards to know your direction so that I presume you heard from him by yesterday’s post. as you cannot I conclude be allowed to do anything at alma mater of a Sunday you had better come up Saturday Evg & pass it with us. Caroline <3> is better & resumes her waiting tomorrow Deo Volente

affly yrs
E F

Notes:

1. John George Charles Fox Strangways (1803–1859), MP.

2. Richard Berens, DCL (1782-1849), Fellow and Bursar of All Souls College, Oxford.

3. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.

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