Farrance’s Hotel <1>
Friday August 17th 1860
My dear Henry
One line to say we leave Town tomorrow for Exeter – stay there Sunday, & join Ld Mt E. <2> next day at Dartmouth – Please write to me there – direct Steam Yacht Dartmouth
T. over –
with my name that is enough – But to anyone else on board it is requisite to put
Mount Edgcumbe Steam Yacht
Yr affte in haste
Caroline
[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esqre
Oakfield
Keswick
Cumberland
Notes:
1. Farrance’s Hotel, Belgrave Street, London.
2. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law.
3. Amélina Petit De Billier, ‘Mamie’, ‘Amandier’ (1798–1876), governess and later close friend of the Talbot family [See Amélina's journal].
4. Matilda Caroline Gilchrist-Clark, ‘Tilly’, née Talbot (1839–1927), WHFT’s 3rd daughter.