My dear Henry

Will you dine at ¼ before 8 – & go ensuite ^<1> to L. H^{se <2>} You will like to see L^d Auckland & Miss Eden ^<3> who dine there.

Ernest & Val ^<4> are gone to Cowes.

No letter f^m Horatia ^<5> today.

Y^rs affl^y
Caroline

I am just going to drive the children ^<6> to Hampstead Heath. You see I have changed my mind since this morn^g’s note – I have so much to do –

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Notes:

1. Afterwards.

2. Lansdowne House, London: home of the Marquis of Lansdowne, WHFT's uncle and cousins.

3. George Eden, 1^st Earl of Auckland (1784–1849), Governor General of India, and Miss Eden, presumambly one of his several sisters.

4. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3^rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law, and William Henry Edgcumbe, ‘Val’, 4^th Earl Mt Edgcumbe (1832–1917), JP & Ld Steward of the Royal Household; WHFT’s nephew ‘Bimbo’.

5. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.

6. Charles Earnest Edgcumbe (1838–1915), JP, WHFT’s nephew, and Ernestine Emma Horatia Edgcumbe (1843-1925), WHFT’s niece.