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Document number: 7299
Date: 05 Oct 1856
Postmark: 6 Oct 1856
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FITZMAURICE Henry Petty
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 20910
Last updated: 27th April 2011

Rossie Priory<1>
Octr 5th

Dear Talbot

I have just found your note here with many letters on my return from the [ill.del.] Close[?] counties.

It will give me great pleasure to dine with you on the 14th if I reach Bowood<2> before that day, but I cannot be certain at present

I shall however let you know before & remain Yrs ever truly
Lansdowne

[envelope]
H. Talbot Esq
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
England

Notes:

1. Seat of the Kinnaird family, in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, erected from 1807. Home of George William Fox Kinnaird, 9th Baron Kinnaird, 1st Baron Kinnaird of Rossie (1807-1878); scientist and land reformer.

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

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