TALBOT4582

Lulworth Villa
S^t Mary Church
Torquay – June 5^th 1875

My dear Henry

I hope Harriot ¹ told you how much I felt obliged by your interest in, & advice concerning my Memoirs of M^rs Campbell;² & by your kind offer of writing to your Publisher. I now write to know whether you have done so, & what is his answer, as I have made an Abridgement of the Memoirs expressly for a Magazine, which I think will answer very well, & my Précis of which, sent to Harriot, she highly approves, & I am anxious to know what your Publisher says on the subject. If he is hopeless, I shall put an iron in the fire in another direction, but I must know what hopes there are through him before I take further steps. In any case I hope you will not withhold the staff of your supporting approval, & corroboration of its authenticity & veracity. if I should ever find a Magazine Editor, and should need it. In the abridgement, I have given her early life & connections, (omitting your Mother’s letters-)³

The war in Canada, Banquet, & going to Bermudas (omitting the Hervey Island anecdote & the details of her Tablet–)⁴ but stating her grief & its erection, because of B. Stockmar⁵–

All about the P^ss C. – & Baron S. A short private life – (omitting all the anecdotes,) & shortened account of her death – All notes omitted – only what is necessary, between brackets as you read – Conclusion of 2 2^d sights & a very short notice, (much too mild!) of the removal of the Monument,⁶ which Harriot approves, so you will altogether about 37 copy book pages. I intend making, if I have strength, a 2^d copy of this Abridgement, lest one should be lost in sending it about, & I could send you the rough but perfect copy, to send on to your Book seller, if he would wish to see it, or you would wish him to do so.

For Har^t I have made a Memoir suitable for the family, only omitting the Cowes Anecdote – With all the notes & one or two others she wished to have added. Love to Constance. ⁷

Y^r aff cousin
Louisa C. Frampton

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Henry Fox Talbot Esqre.
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The Abbey
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