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Document number: 3013
Date: 28 Nov 1834
Dating: 1834?
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Constance, née Mundy
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA34(MW)-132
Last updated: 10th March 2012

Lacock Abbey
Nov 2d

My dear Henry

I am very sorry to hear that you had such a miserably cold journey – but glad you arrived quite safe – Had you been travelling today you might have been a little less cold, perhaps, but I think you would have had an excellent chance of being blown over – How good you were to write me such a nice letter when you were still suffering so much from your cold journey!! We are all thriving here, only we have been extremely tormented by smoking chimneys all the mor[e>] – & After wandering from one room to anoth[er] actually sitting with open windows to avoid [being]<1> stifled, I have at length found recovered the enjoyment of a pure atmosphere in the Dining room of which I made trial in a fit of despair after giving up all the others. – But every now and then the rain pours down in such dense columns that I am almost in darkness, so you must not expect more than a short letter from me – Did you get a thick packet from Chippenham <2> which I enclosed to Mr Strangways <3> yesterday? – Pray send me due notice of Lady Elisabeth <4> in coming home, that I may get the rooms properly aired –

yr affte
Constance

The wind is blowing in very strong gusts from our mischievous quarter the South west but I don’t perceive any trees falling down at present.

H. F. Talbot Esqre
Sackville Street


Notes:

1. Text torn away under seal.

2. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.

3. William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (1795–1865), botanist, art collector & diplomat.

4. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, n้e Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.

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