Excerpt from Letters of Thomas Langton to Mrs. Thomas Hornby, 1815 to 1818: With Portraits and a Notice of His Life
This fragment of the correspondence of our grandfather with his only sister Cicely, Mrs. Thomas Hornby (of Kirkham), was in the possession of his daughter, our Aunt Anne, possibly given to her by her cousin and life long friend, Margaret Hornby (the Aunt Margaret of our young days). It was thought by his grandchildren that the letters are too interesting as a family record to be lost, a fate which the condition of the paper and ink made too probable.
Some of the incidents mentioned are already embodied in our aunt's book, T/ze Story of our Family, a copy of which all surviving relations and many old friends possess.
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