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Document number: 3396
Date: 15 Nov 1836
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS William Thomas Horner Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 7th November 2011

Abb. <1>
15 Novr

My dear Henry

We shall be happy to see you here whenever you come – if about 20 – or 22 or 23d – Harry <2> will be glad to see you at Melbury <3> & we will come over here from thence We have plenty of flowers still – Crocuses Coronillas Geranium Cinerarias Amaryllis Cytisus besides the flowers of the season. Pray bring me Arum tenuifolium – & a bit of your myrsinites which I have not got.

Yr aff
W F S –

Dorchester November fifteen 1836 W F Strangways
H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

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

2. Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–1858).

3. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.

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