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Document number: 3770
Date: Sun 10 Nov 1839
Dating: date editorial: see 03962,03963
Postmark: 10 Nov 1839
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS William Thomas Horner Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 20041
Last updated: 7th July 2010

Melbury <1>
Sunday

Dear Henry

The enclosed will satisfy you about the Mirror which I dare say will find its way to you as the Camera did. <2> The specimens you sent last are very pretty particularly the Gate & Cloister. I think if you let them wait (in the dark) a little longer before fixing, or fixed them with a softer brush & lighter hand the outlines would be sharper. Mary <3> arrived quite well.

Yrs
W F S

Why did you not send me the Rhus by Mary? <4>

[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

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

2. See Doc. No: 03963.

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

4. Rhus elegans. [See Doc. No: 03963].

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