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Document number: 6389
Date: 13 Feb 1851
Recipient: GAISFORD Henrietta Horatia Maria, née Feilding
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 2nd May 2012

Lacock
Feb. 13. 1851

My Dear Horatia

The papers today have long accounts of the extraordinary occurrence at Forlimpopoli, <1> so well described in Your letter of the 3d. Such a Melodrama was never before acted on any stage! It is only in Italy that such things are possible, and I think that if Mrs Radcliffe <2> had introduced this adventure into her romance of “the Italian”, it would have been scouted as too improbable.

Notes:

1. He refers to the theatrical event Horatia described in her letter of the 3 February 1851. [See Doc. No: 06388].

2. Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (London: 1797).

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