F. O. ^<1>
22 Feby 40

My dear Henry

We shall send to Munich & Vienna next Monday night – & to Turin Florence Bologna in the course of the week – Pray take some portraits of trees without leaves, & the same in leaf, in the summer. Also branches, twigs, leaves, for studies for drawing for Ela ^<2> when she begins landscape. I think polished Silver Plate, vases, &c would be good models.

Yrs aff
W F S

H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock
Chippenham
WFS ^<3>

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Notes:

1. That is, the Foreign Office.

2. Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1^st daughter.

3. Initialled to authorise the Foreign Office to pay postage, the franking system having been abolished with the institution of the Penny Post on 10 January 1840.