[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Lady Elisabeth - see Doc. No: 01919]

Laycock Abbey
Wednesday 23^d Dec^r

My dear Henry

I wish you could buy one of the Annuals for me to give Caroline ^<1> for her Birthday – I will leave the choice of the prettiest to you I think I should like the Literary Souvenir ^<2> They are all to be had at Smith’s 192 Strand – & I dare say at all those sorts of shops.

I have not been out once – the weather is so cold & bad, & have not yet seen my Aunt & my cousins – We are going to Bowood^<3> tomorrow to spend Christmas Day. – Mary Fox^<4> is coming there Friday. – Addio caro ^<5> –

Your aff^te sister
Hor^a

P.S. Upon second thoughts I wish you could get me instead of the other Apollo’s Gift or the Musical Souvenir for 1830 – to be had at Cramer’s 201 Regent Street or Chappell 135 New Bond Street – Papa ^<6> says we can send the carriage for you all the same, if you will only write word which coach you come by & whether by Chippenham ^<7> or Melksham

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
31 Sackville Street
London

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Notes:

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

2. Literary annual.

3. Bowood House, nr Calne, Wiltshire, 5 mi NE of Lacock: seat of the Marquess of Lansdowne.

4. Lady Mary Elizabeth Fox (1806-1891)

5. Goodbye dear.

6. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.

7. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.