My dear Henry,
A gentleman is to bring a Watch for me tomorrow or next Day Edward <1> must take it to you as soon as it arrives If it comes in in a case un=pack it & keep it wound up till you come & bring it with you & Perhaps Constance <2> will be kind enough to take charge of winding to save you the Trouble - & pray tell her how pleased my sister was with her & how much she hopes to see her at Hammersmith <3> -
Your mother <4> is better today but the Easterly wind, is too much for any body. Horatia <5> is rheumatic with it - & Mrs Moore <6> is à l'agonie <7> with a pain in the Face which delays their last visit to us - They are to have been here tomorrow - I am bothered with Valletorts <8> commission about his Horse which he wants sent directly instead of waiting to confirm with me - & I do not know who to send, & Pullen <9> can-not read English let alone French. However it will not be my Fault If any thing happens - Brougham <10> might at least have been civil to the Bishops when he intends to show them.
V. Afft.
PS.I want Horatia to have the accompanying Note <11> tomorrow if not inconvenient
Notes:
1. Probably a servant.
2. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811-1880), WHFT's wife.
3. Lady Sophia Charlotte Fitzgerald, née Feilding (d. 1834), Charles Feilding's sister. She moved to Hammersmith (now a West London suburb) after her diplomat husband, Lord Robert Stephen Fitzgerald, died in Nice in 1833. After her death, a memorial to her was placed in St Paul's Church, Hammersmith.
4. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773-1846), WHFT's mother.
5. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810-1851), WHFT's half-sister.
6. Elizabeth (Bessie) Moore, née Dyke (1783-1865), wife of the poet Thomas Moore.
7. At the last gasp.
8. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797-1861), WHFT's brother-in-law.
9. William Pullen, Lacock Abbey coachman.
10. Henry Peter Brougham, Baron of Brougham & Voux (1778-1868), Lord Chancellor.
11. Accompanying note not located.