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Document number: 159
Date: 24 Jan 1829
Dating: by calendar - see 00060
Harold White: 1828
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: GAISFORD Henrietta Horatia Maria, née Feilding
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 24th January 2012

[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Lady Elisabetth: Doc. No: 01647]

Laycock abbey
24th January

Mr Fox’s Birthday!

My Dear Henry

The Thermometer was 12 deg. of Fahrenheit about 9 below zero of Réaumur last night out of doors here & the water in our rooms freezes hard.

Addio Fratello carissimo <1>.

W. H. Fox Talbot Esqre
Lady Mildmay’s <2>
Winchester

Notes:

1. Goodbye dearest brother.

2. Jane Dorothea Methuen, née Mildmay (d. 1846).

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