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Document number: 2056
Date: Thu 16 Sep 1830
Dating: Lady Harriet Cunliffe d. 9 Sep 1830
Harold White: 16 Sep 1830
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: CUNLIFFE-OFFLEY Elizabeth Emma
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection 2: National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Last updated: 9th July 2010

[The letter is in the BL and its envelope is in the NMeM.]

Acton Park
Thursday 15

Dear Mr Talbot,

I regret much to say, that in consequence of deep and sudden affliction, we are obliged to give up the pleasure of receiving you, in common with several other friends, at Madeley, <1> at the time you proposed coming – We were summoned here on Saturday by an express announcing the dangerous illness of Lady Cunliffe, which terminated fatally before we arrived - <2>

We can only hope that you may be coming our way at some future period & make up to us for our present disappointment

Believe me very truly yrs
Emma Cunliffe Offley

[envelope:]
to be forwarded
Wrexham Septr sixteen 1830
H. Fox Talbot Esqr.
Post Office
Worthinton
Worcester

Doncaster


Notes:

1. 4 mi W of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

2. Lady Harriet Cunliffe died on 9 September 1830.

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