Dunraven Castle <1>
Decr. 20th. 1839
Dear Talbot
I find from Calv. Jones <2> that you are expected at Margam. <3> We hope that you will not leave the County without paying us a visit. We shall return to Coedriglan <4> t’morrow & leave it on Tuesday – but shall be at home again on the 25th.
We have just received Hermes. No. 2. <5> & I think that some of your suggestions are very ingenious.–
The Bishop of Llandaff <6> is printing some letters of Lord Dudley’s <7> – in one from Nice in 1822 – he mentions yourself in flattering terms.
Yours truly
John M. Traherne
Traherne
Henry Fox Talbot Esq
Notes:
1. Dunraven Castle, Glamorganshire belonged to Thomas Wyndham.
2. Rev Calvert Richard Jones (1802–1877), Welsh painter & photographer.
3. Margam Park, Glamorgan: home of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot.
4. Coedriglan, near Cardiff, Wales: home of the Rev John Montgomerie Traherne, husband of WHFT’s cousin Charlotte.
5. WHFT, Hermes: or Classical and Antiquarian Researches, No. 2. (London: Longman, Orme, Green, Brown & Longman, 1839).
6. Bishop Edward Copplestone. [See Doc. No: 04013].
7. John William Ward, 1st Earl Dudley (d. 1833).