TALBOT8982

Llandaff
Wednesday evening

My dear Father.

I am going to send you tomorrow one of the numbers of the Photographic paper which is here, and the other in a day or two.

Today has been quite as hot as yesterday, and I I cant tell where the rain can be.

I see from the periodical called “The Ecclesiologist”, ¹ that they are going to put up a memorial to Mr Markland ² of Bath who was an early a sort of pioneer in reviving the taste for stained glass windows. The memorial is to be a window erected in Bath Abbey ³ by public subscription, and I think it is an appropriate one form for it to take. Bath abbey will I expect be much improved by what they are doing. They seemed to be renewing the stone of the windows pretty extensively when I was there. M^r Markland gave a window to Llandaff Cathedral. ⁴

When you are next in London you ought to go and see the chapel of the house of commons which was the lower chapel of St Stephens, ⁵ and which is said to have been very well restored. I have not seen it.

They have been launching a large ship here today which many people went to see. I think it must have been rather too hot to be pleasant. M^r Prichard ⁶ contrived to be too late for the launch but got in^t time for the lunch.

Your affect son
Charles.

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H. Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham