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Document number: 3027
Date: Mon 20 Dec 1824
Dating: ref to Henry Murray, who d. 1831
Harold White: 20 Dec 1834 ?
Postmark: 20 Dec 18?4
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS William Thomas Horner Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA34(MW)-137
Last updated: 2nd March 2016

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.

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