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Document number: 50
Date: Sat Aug 1831
Dating: see Doc nos 02213 & 02219
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: SEYMER Harriet Ker, née Beckford
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 16th August 2010

My dear Mr Talbot

Your letter found us just returned from Encombe where we have been spending part of the day – There having been two arrivals to day we were at first afraid the house was quite full, but we have been able to secure you an apartment & shall be very happy to see you – By your letter we conclude you will be here Monday & have secured your apartment for that day – We like this place very much & find this Hotel extremely quiet & comfortable. I suppose you may have left Abbotsbury <1> before the arrival of the post & that you will take this up at Dorchester We should otherwise beg to be most kindly remembered to Lady Ilchester Ly Theresa <2> &c The [Keiths?] tell us Ly Ilchester had kindly intended inviting us to Abbotsbury About this time – we should have liked to go there most exceedingly had we been at liberty –

Believe me Sincerely Yours
Harriet Ker Seymer

Saturday Eveg

H. F Talbot Esqre
Abbotsbury Castle
Dorchester
Post Office
Swanage


Notes:

1. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.

2. Possibly Juliana Maria Strangways, née Digby (d. 1842) and Theresa Anna Maria Digby, née Fox Strangways (1814–1874), WHFT’s cousin.

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