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Document number: 3564
Date: Mon Sep 1837
Dating: confirmed by Capt Feilding's death
Watermark: 1837
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: METHUEN Jane Dorothea, née Mildmay
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 23rd December 2010

Dear Mr Talbot –

I cannot hear of your being all at Lacock without desiring most earnestly to obtain from you some account of Lady Elizabeth & your Sisters. <1> I hope and pray that you may be able to tell me that they are recovering to a certain degree that composure which must have been so completely destroyed by so severe a trial as they have had to undergo – and that they are regaining their health – I have felt most sincerely for them, and most truly lament for myself the loss of so kind and long tried a friend as was Admiral Feilding <2> to me – Pray excuse me – and with my best Compliments to Mrs Talbot <3>

Believe me Yours very Truly
D Methuen

Corsham House <4>
Monday

Notes:

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

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

3. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

4. Corsham Court, Wiltshire, 3 mi NW of Lacock: seat of Ld Methuen.