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Document number: 4909
Date: Tue 1856
Dating: internal evidence
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Charles Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 11th January 2011

Harrow <1>
Tuesday

Dear Papa

I am sorry that I could not answer your letter so soon as I ought to have done. But I have much more to do this Quarter than I did last. I am sorry to say I am to be re-examined in my holiday task. The certificate I obtained from the doctor here after showing him the letter.

The chapel building his [sic] suspended for the school has no funds and moreover his is in debt.<2>

The new schools are open and I sit in them.<3> I send you this year s quarters bill book and also last quarters. I have underlined all those in our house and marked all those I knew before I came here with an angle and also Montagu.

Goodbye dear Papa Your affectionate son
Charles Henry Talbot.

Notes:

1. Harrow School: WHFT attended from 1811–1815 and his son Charles from 1855-1859.

2. The new chapel, the second one built, was designed by Sir George Scott. In early 1856, the first stone was laid in the memorial aisle dedicated to those officers educated at the school who had fallen in the Crimean War. Funding ran short and work was suspended until a subscription allowed it to re-commence in November 1856. It opened in 1857.

3. The New Schools were the first major addition to Harrow School and their construction was funded by subscription in 1855. They are still called the 'New Schools' to this day.

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