31 Burlⁿ S^{t <1>} –

Dear Henry

I called yesterday to ask you to drive with me to the British Museum to see the Budrum Marbles which are now proved to be fragments of the original Mausoleum ^<2>.

And I wished to find you out on Friday at L. House ^<3> concert but could not see you & to ask if you & M^rs Talbot ^<4> could dine with us either on Wednesday next or Saturday next – as might be convenient at ½ past 7.

I hope you will come to the Bath Archæological meeting ^<5> between the 20^th & 30^th of July. I mean to go there & expect an interesting collection of things to be exhibited.

Y^r aff
W^{m <6>}

27 June

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Notes:

1. 31 Burlington Street, London home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.

2. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Budrum) was excavated in 1857 and various fragments went to the British Museum.

3. Lansdowne House, London: home of the Marquis of Lansdowne, WHFT's uncle and cousins.

4. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

5. The Archeaological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland held their annual meeting at Bath, starting 20 July 1858. See also Doc. No: 07681, which dates this document to 1858.

6. Typical signature of WTHFS after he succeeded to the earldom.