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Document number: 6637
Date: 03 Jun 1852
Postmark: 3 Jun 1852
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Charles Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Dummer house <1>

Dear Papa

I pos I hope you are quite well the poor little fusia you sent me lost all its leaves and I thought it was deat but wes yesterday I discovered it had some tiny red shoots all over it which were so small that they could only have just shot forth. P Dear Papa I should be very much obliged to you If you would give me some more money Mr Williams <2> told me to write ask you as he says I have spent more than I had

I am your dutiful son

Charles Henry Talbot

W H Fox Talbot Esq
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts

Notes:

1. Dummer House, Basingstoke.

2. Rev James Augustus Williams.

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