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Document number: 8036
Date:
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Charles Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: 27179
Last updated: 15th January 2011

[fragment]

our weather today is easing. In general it is fine and warm.

I have seen Emily Talbot, <1> Mrs Henry Crichton and in g The Hicks Beaches, <2> and others. I have not heard of either my Aunt Caroline or Lady Hylton <3> being yet in town

Love to all

Your affect son
Charles

Notes:

1. Emily Charlotte Talbot (1840-1918), 1st daughter of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician; WHFT’s Welsh cousin.

2. Almost certainly a slight mistake for William Wither Bramston Beach (b. 1826), who married Caroline Chichester, née Cleveland, in 1857. His father, William Hicks Beach (1783–1856), had dropped Hicks from his name by Royal License in 1838.

3. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister, and Lady Sophia Penelope Jolliffe, née Sheffield (1822-1882); first m. WTHF Strangways, second m. 1stBaron Hylton.

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