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Document number: 2028
Date: 19 Jul 1830
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: GAISFORD Henrietta Horatia Maria, née Feilding
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA30-39
Last updated: 5th July 2014

London
July 19th 1830

My dear Henry

I am very glad to hear you are making such a pleasant tour in the mountains. I have such pleasant recollections of our journey on the Wye 5 years ago, that I should like to go there again.

We had a very pleasant water-party Friday we drove down to Blackwall, & embarked on board the Vigilant cutter, which belongs to Mr H. Bouverie as commissioner of the customs. We sailed down the river as far as Belvidere; the day was lovely excepting occasional showers which made a pleasing variety. We all dined at an excellent new inn, at Blackwall on white-bait. The party consisted of Lady Mansfield <1> & her daughters Lady Belhaven <2>, the ladies Charteris, <3> Miss Seymour, Ly Georgina Hervey, <4> Lady Mildmay <5> & Letitia, Lord Jermyn & Ld Arthur H. <6> & several others.

Lady Hunloke <7> is arrived & dined here Saturday. Elisa <8> is overjoyed at being in England again. We were at a party at Lady Cowper’s <9> Wednesday where Emily <10> appeared for the first time as Lady Ashley she begged us to call on her, which we did next day. She has a delightful house in New Norfolk Street looking into the Park, & seems as happy as possible. Lady Jersey <11> is quite rayonnante <12> – they say Lord J. <13> did not like his appointment at first at all, but he will soon get reconciled to it. – Only think of the King <14> going to take possession of Windsor Castle on the box of the Dss of Gloucester’s <15> carriage. He will be very unpopular with the Navy for changing the uniform & with the army pour l’affaire des moustaches. <16>

There is a breakfast to-day at Kenwood – but it has been pouring all the morning so I do not know whether we can go. Lady Bristol <17> has one to-morrow at Putney, & the Dss of Bedford <18> her long expected ball, to which we are all requested to go in white, not to look like the Dance of Death. – Lady Holland <19> has taken a sudden fancy to C. <20> & me – she has ask [illegible] to dinner next Sunday at Holland House. pensa che onore! <21> I hear Lady Lilford <22> writes the most rapturous descriptions of Lilford Hall, selon elle, <23> Northamptonshire is Paradise on earth. Addio caro <24> – I direct to Chepstow according to others, though I dare say you will be flown away somewhere else by the time my letter gets there.

Your affte Sister
Horatia

I hear nothing but praises of the Legends <25> on all sides – Charles Phipps <26> was delighted, particularly with Rubezahl: Lady Luisa Charteris told me she looked forward to reading it as her only amusement on the her passage to Edinburgh on board a Leith smack which it is Lord Wemyss’s <27> particular fancy to go in – & in which they are often detained a fortnight!

W. H. Fox Talbot Esqre
Post Office
Chepstow
Cows [sic] <28>
Isle of Wight
Lacock Abbey <29>
Chippenham
Wilts


Notes:

1. Lady Frederica Markham Mansfield (1774–1860).

2. Probably the wife of Robert Montgomery Hamilton, 8th Lord Belhaven and Stenton (1793–1868).

3. Some combination of Charlotte Charteris (d.1886); Louisa Antoinetta Charteris (d. 1854); Lady Harriet Charteris (d. 1858); Lady Jane Charteris; Lady Eleanor Charteris (1796-1832); Lady Katherine Charteris Wemyss (1801-1844)/

4. Probably daughter of Lady Seymour (1793–1898) and Sir George Francis Seymour (1787–1870); and Georgina Elizabeth Charlotte Hervey (d. 1869), married 1836 to reverend John Grey son of the 2nd Earl Grey.

5. Jane Dorthea Methuen, née Mildmay (1789–1846).

6. Probably Frederick William Hervey (1769–1859), was created Marquess of Bristol and Earl Jermyn 1826; and his son Reverend Arthur Charles Hervey (b. 1808), became bishop of Bath and Wells in 1869; brother of Georgina Hervey.

7. Lady Anne Hunloke, née Eccleston (1788–1872); after 1860, known as Lady Anne Scarisbrick.

8. Elisa Hunloke.

9. Lady Emily Mary Cowper, née Lamb.

10. Lady Emily Cowper married Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Ashley, 7th Earl Shaftesbury (1801–1885).

11. Sarah Sophia Villiers, née Fane, Lady Jersey (1785–1867).

12. Radiant.

13. George Child Villiers, 5th Earl Jersey (1773–1859).

14. William IV (1765–1837), King of England (1830–1837). He had succeeded to the throne on 26th June.

15. Mary, Duchess of Gloucester (1776–1857), daughter of King George III.

16. Because of the moustaches business.

17. Possibly Elizabeth Albana Hervey, Lady Bristol.

18. Georgiana Russell, née Gordon, Duchess of Bedford.

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

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

21. Think what an honour!

22. Mary Elizabeth Powys, née Fox, Lady Lilford (1806–1891).

23. According to her.

24. Goodbye dear.

25. WHFT, Legendary Tales, in Verse and Prose (London: James Ridgway, 1830).

26. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps (1801–1866), court official and keeper of the Privy Purse.

27. Francis Charteris-Wemyss-Douglas, 6th Earl Wemyss and 4th Earl March (1771–1853).

28. Readdressed in another hand.

29. Readdressed in another hand.

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