Abbotsbury <1>
Mondy
We shall be happy to see you here tomorrow you will meet Kit <2> & Henry Murray <3> on Wednesday & Ld I– <4> comes here Tomorrow from Melbury <5> –
Yr Aff
W T H F S
from Abbotsbury
Henry Talbot Esqr
Post Office
Dorchester
Notes:
1. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.
2. Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician; WHFT’s Welsh cousin.
3. Henry Murray (1800–1831), youngest son of Lord George Murray and a brother-in-law of the 3rd earl of Ilchester.
4. Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–1858).
5. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.