Lorbottle Alnwick
My dear Uncle Henry
I find it impossible for me to get to London before Thursday, & therefore I cannot come to Lacock until Saturday – when I shall be very much pleased to pay you a little visit for two nights, & to bring both my two eldest girls <1> My address in London is
Brunswick Hotel
Hanover Square
Believe me yr afft nephew
Mt Edgcumbe
[envelope, mourning border:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esqre
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Mt. E.
Notes:
1. Lady Victoria Frederica Caroline Edgcumbe (d. 1920), and Lady Edith Hilaria Edgecumbe (d. 1931).