Farrance’s Hotel ^<1>
Friday August 17^th 1860

My dear Henry

One line to say we leave Town tomorrow for Exeter – stay there Sunday, & join L^d M^t 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

Y^r aff^te in haste
Caroline

The news Amandier ^<3> sends of Matilda ^<4> are [sic] delightful

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
Oakfield
Keswick
Cumberland

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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.