Wednesday
9th August
My Dear Henry
We have been going on prosperously till lately – Nurse Moore <1> was seized with a bilious fever about a Week ago, & died yesterday – which Horatia <2> has taken so deeply to heart as to be quite ill in consequence. She shut herself up & would see nobody but me & Caroline <3> from the time She began to be uneasy about N.M. & now she looks shockingly – & if it was not for Caroline’s situation I would take her out of town directly. She died in Lady Westmorland’s <4> house in Harley Street, & everything was done for her that could have been done for one of Ly W’s own Children. Doctors, Nurses & attentions were lavished on her, & Ly W. remained with her all the night before her death, which occuring <sic> at 70, really H. had nothing to wish for more. than was done But however she takes on sadly. When are you coming up? I do so long to be in the county <sic> no words can say. Caroline seems so oppressed I do not think She can go on much longer. Is Constance <5> come back? I perceive that Lord Campbell’s <6> motion in favour of Sir D. Brewster <7> has not succeeded has Sir D. left St Andrews? Now the weather has really become summerish (only the last two days) it is shocking to be shut up in this stuffy town. Besides I believe that after the K. of Hanover’s <8> concert to night there will be absolutely nothing to do –
Affy Yr
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write to meNotes:
1. See Doc. No: 04826.
2. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.
3. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.
4. Priscilla Fane, née Welleslley-Pole, Countess of Westmorland (1793–1879).
5. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.
6. John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell (1779–1861), Lord Chief Justice.
7. Sir David Brewster (1781–1868), Scottish scientist & journalist.
8. Ernst August I, King of Hanover (1771–1851).