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Document number: 3569
Date: 03 Sep 1837
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FRAMPTON James
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 23rd December 2010

Moreton <1>
Sept 3 1837.

My Dear Henry/

Tho prepared for the account <2> communicated by your letter of yesterday we are all shocked & overset by it & most anxious to hear again of Lady Elizabeth & Horatia <3> – so pray write if you have leisure. What a succession of losses we have experienced.

Yours very Sincerely
James Frampton

If Ly Valletort <4> is with you mention her also.

Henry Talbot Esqr
31 Sackville Street
London


Notes:

1. Moreton, Dorset: home of the Frampton family.

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

3. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother, and Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.

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

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