Netherby <1>
Monday 21st Sepr
My Dear Henry
This is to tell you there are three letters from me for you at the Post office Penrith. We shall be at Glasgow Thursday Night & stay there two or three days as there is much to see. The Royal Hotel George Square Glasgow. One day we shall spend in a steam boat going to see Greenock & the embankment of the Clyde, this I tell you in case you prefer staying on a little longer at Lowther <2> instead of over taking us at Glasgow, on the uncertainty of the weather as well as of all other things. From Glasgow we go to visit Ld & Ly Willoughby d’Eresby, <3> at Drummond Castle near Perth, & from that to Scone Palace, where I am sure Ly Mansfield <4> will invite you the moment she knows you are in Scotland, D. Castle is half burnt down & they have few rooms so of that I am not so sure. Pray let me have a line from you at the Post office Glasgow to tell me what you think of doing. We shall stay 4 or 5 days at D. Castle & ten or 12 at Scone. If I was sure you would stay any time at L. Castle, I would write to you again there, but till I hear from you again I cannot have the least idea where to direct to you We must be very much out of luck indeed if every Post Master serves one like that [missing text] <5>
Afftly yours
Henry Fox Talbot Esqr
Lowther Castle
Notes:
1. Netherby, the family seat of Sir James Robert George Graham.
2. Lowther Castle, Cumbria, the family seat of the Earls of Lonsdale.
3. Peter Robert Drummond-Willoughby, 21st Lord Willoughby de Eresby, 2nd Lord Gwydir (1782–1865), and his wife Clementina Sarah Drummond (1786–1865).
4. Frederica Murray, née Markham, Lady Mansfield (1774–1860).
5. Text torn away under seal.