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Document number: 8781
Date: 30 Dec 1863
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS William Thomas Horner Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 14th March 2012

30 Decr 1863

Dear Henry,

Will not the enclosed <1> tempt you now you are so near to come on to Abby <2> – & see our Aloe – already 10 ft high & going to flower?

There is a lovely bunch of Imperati Crocus on the Terrace – white hyacinths – lithospermum – Con. <3> cneorum <–> coronilla – & 100 other rarities

I wish Car– <4> & Ernestine <5> a happy Xmas & a good journey

Yr Aff
Wm

we are here for 3 weeks

Notes:

1. Two dried leaves [unidentified, but not Aloe] attached to the page below the text.

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

3. Convolvulus.

4. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.

5. Ernestine Emma Horatia Edgcumbe (1843-1925), WHFT’s niece.

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