Mount Edgcumbe <1>
Devonport.
Friday 1st Aug
Dear Uncle Henry
Very many thanks for your kind recollection of me and for your invitation which I received this morning
I really very much regret that I cannot come now. I must stay here over tomorrow – and am under promise to be at Cowes on Monday – but as I am sure to be coming your way early in September, I will write and propose myself then in the hopes that it may be an equally convenient time for you to have me.
I am so glad to hear that some of the Australian seeds deigned to show themselves productive –
With kind love to all –
Believe me yr affte nephew
C E Edgcumbe
[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. Mt Edgecumbe, near Plymouth: seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe.