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Document number: 5423
Date: Mon 27 Oct 1845
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 8th June 2010

[fragment]

Monday

My Dear Henry

I took the Martyrs’ Tower <1> to Lady Holland, <2> she was perfectly enchanted & I left the magnifyer with her that she might contemplate it at leisure. She asked immediately if it was to be in the next number of the Pencil of Nature, <3> by which I found she knew more on the subject than I supposed. She called her Page & asked him if she had all the numbers, upon which he directly produced 4 No’s & I should then have naturally told her how she could possess the Sun Pictures, <4> which I had never mentioned to her, but as you deprecate more subscribers I

Notes:

1. The Martyrs’ Memorial – the monument to the Protestant martyrs. It was erected 1841–1843. [See Larry J. Schaaf, The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), p.178].

2. Elizabeth Fox, née Vassall (d. 1845), Lady Holland.

3. WHFT, The Pencil of Nature (London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, June 1844–April 1846 [issued in six fascicles])

4. WHFT, Sun Pictures in Scotland (London: Published by subscription in 1845)

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