Nov^ber 21st

My dear Henry

Thank you for writing to me so kindly I hope some day you will come & see me in my own house, believe me it will give me very great pleasure to see you there. I hope I may have an opportunity of introducing your new cousin before I could not make up my mind to tell you when you were here, but I wrote to you afterwards & my letter was returned to the franker, the day before yesterday from the Post Office Barmouth, “not called for” – if you had received it you would have had my early intimation of my intentions, though as a profound secret. Pray thank Aunt Lily ^<1> for her kind letter I certainly will take the first opportunity of paying my respects in my new character Give my love to C & H ^<2> & believe me dear Henry your most affec^te Cousin
Isabella Talbot

Thank you for my poor Canary’s Epitaph – Mary ^<3> is in London with Jane. ^<4> She will return here to see me married. ^<5> Dear Henry, when will you take a wife? believe me there is nothing on earth so sweet as the feeling of giving happiness to one that loves you –

[envelope]
Swansea Nov^r. Twenty one 1820
H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
31 Sackville Street
London
Chris^er Cole.
Turn over
H. Fox Talbot Esq^r
Post Office
York

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Notes:

1. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.

2. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister, and Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.

3. Mary Thereza Talbot (1795–1861), WHFT’s cousin.

4. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874).

5. She married Richard Franklen.