Mt Edgcumbe <1>
Sunday June 5th
My dear Henry
Many thanks for the seeds & all the trouble you have taken – they are not arrived yet, & I will write to you again about them – I have only time today to ask if you will be at home & would like to have me & Bimbo <2> about 20th for a day or two, or shall you be in London, of wh I heard some reports –? Ld V– <3> goes direct to London, I believe 13th & I mean to go the same day, but have proposed myself to Abbotsbury & Moreton <4> in my way – I have not heard whether Mamma <5> is thinking of leaving town – Write to me immediately because the post is so lengthy –
Love to Constance & Ela <6> –
Yr affte Sister
Caroline
W. H. Fox Talbot Esqr–
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Notes:
1. Mt Edgecumbe, near Plymouth: seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe.
2. William Henry Edgcumbe, ‘Val’, 4th Earl Mt Edgcumbe (1832–1917), JP & Ld Steward of the Royal Household; WHFT’s nephew ‘Bimbo’.
3. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law.
4. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, and Moreton, Dorset: home of the Frampton family
5. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife, and Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1st daughter.
6. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.