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Document number: 7278
Date: 18 Jul 1856
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: LLEWELYN Emma Thomasina, née Talbot
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 23rd June 2015

Penllergare
July 18th

My dear Henry

I am sorry you did not receive the Photographs much sooner I intended packing them off for you to have, whilst Mary <1> was at Lacock, to talk them over, and explain why so few were sent – because so few have been yet made that were satisfactory – When I go to look for my favorite old views they are all grown up – or altered so that I long to cut down many trees only the Rocks are the same and the lovely view from the Peak in Nicholastone Wood <2> which has still to be done. The large Photographs were made especially for you, last summer, and, I have been hoping ever since to get a few more – the smaller ones were made by Thereza, <3> this spring, when she was there with her Aunt Mary – Mr Llewelyn <4> hoped to have given them in person but we could hear nothing of you when we were in London – I hear you are thinking of bringing Charles <5> down to Penrice <6> to see your old haunts some time during his holiday – We trust you will not forget how happy we shall be to see you here and hope you will bring him & his Mother and as many sisters <7> as you can, and renew the pleasant impression they made upon us when we saw them from Bowood. <8> We shall be at home all the month of August and part of September and do so wish you would spend a week or ten days with us – Your delightful art thrives here in full vigour & I wish you could see how much pleasure it daily gives us all –

With kind remembrances to Mrs Talbot believe me yr affte cousin
Emma Llewelyn


Notes:

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

2. Nicholaston, 2 miles southeast of Penrice Castle.

3. Thereza Mary Llewelyn (1834–1926), photographer and daughter of Emma and John Dillwyn Llewelyn.

4. John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810–1882), Welsh photographer, JP & High Sheriff.

5. Charles Henry Talbot (1842–1916), antiquary & WHFT’s only son.

6. Penrice Castle and Penrice House, Gower, Glamorgan, 10 mi SW of Swansea: home of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot. WHFT spend quite a bit of his childhood here since Lacock was rented out.

7. Charles’ mother Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife, and his sisters Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1st daughter, Rosamond Constance ‘Monie’ Talbot (1837–1906), artist & WHFT’s 2nd daughter, and Matilda Caroline Gilchrist-Clark, ‘Tilly’, née Talbot (1839–1927), WHFT’s 3rd daughter.

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

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