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Document number: 2302
Date: 19 Jan 1832
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS Juliana Maria, née Digby
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA32-3
Last updated: 2nd February 2012

Abbotsbury <1>
Jan: 19. 1832

My dear Henry

As you anticipate I cannot receive you as comfortably as I should desire in my present House full but I will seek the book you name & send it by Kit <2> to London when he leaves me – I wish you may be able to peep upon me when Spring advances & more of Crocus tribe appear. Pray give my kind regards to all at Hanford <3> of family party

Ever Your Affecte
Grand Mam
M: J:

excuse haste but to return answer by Post must be my excuse

H. F. Talbot Esqre
at H Seymors [sic] Esqre
Hanford
Blandford


Notes:

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

2. Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician; WHFT’s Welsh cousin.

3. Dorset.

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