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Document number: 204
Date: Wed 1842
Dating: see Neesham May 1842, 04523
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Constance, née Mundy
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 23rd January 2011

Wednesday

My dear Henry

We shall come home tomorrow about six – but I forget whether the train leaves Paddington at 2 or ½ past it – I have just seen Wright <1> & find the train starts at 2 so that if you chance to dine a little after six we shall be in time – if not perhaps you will order some dinner to be saved for us – Marian <2> will bring her little carriage down to the Abbey – so that we shall drive over from Chippenham in that & shall only want the last to meet us to assist in conveying the luggage But all this I will write about to Price <3> – so do not take any trouble – I hope to find poor Neesham <4> better & the Nursery in tolerable order –

Your affectionate
Constance –

Notes:

1. James Wright, footman to the Talbots & Constable for Lacock.

2. Her sister, Marian Gilder, née Mundy (1806 – 14 October 1860); m. 6 August 1844 William Troward Gilder (d. 1871), Army Surgeon (ret).

3. Mrs Sarah Henneman, first m Price ( ca.1811–1848), housemaid at Lacock Abbey.

4. Mrs Neesham. She joined the household at the end of May 1842 as nurse to Charles Henry Talbot (1842–1916), antiquary & WHFT’s only son, who was born on 2 February.

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