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Document number: 5309
Date: Sat Jan 1845
Dating: see 05174 for Linnell
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: 28842
Collection number historic: LAM-085
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Saturday

My Dear Henry

I enclose a note from Caroline, <1> & likewise a direction card Mr Linnell <2> gave me the day he called here. I think you should consider it as good for your fame when an eminent Artist is so enthusiastic about your discovery. It is bad policy to throw cold water on those who can make you célèbre <3> & carry your renommée <4> over the world, when you see what apathy & coldness and stupidity & slowness of comprehension exist in your own Country – I have time for no more

Notes:

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

2. Probably John Linnell, landscape and portrait painter. [See Doc. No: 05174].

3. Fame.

4. Renown.

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