Cotehele House ^<1>
Calstock
Tavistock
Sunday August 10^th 1862

My dear Henry

I received your lock of hair ^<2> quite safe, & am now wearing it – many thanks. Do tell me where you are going to in London? I believe we shall go up on Wednesday week, the 20^th & I have written for lodgings in Pont S^t n^r Belgrave Sq^re – a short, quiet street, very near Lowndes Sq^re – The Vals ^<3> are also going up for a week in a fortnight. She is very flourishing, as well as her Babe – born on the 27^th July – another little girl. Post going

in g^t haste

Y^r aff^te
Caroline

[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esq^re
Millburn Tower
Edinburgh
N.B.

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Notes:

1. Cotehele, Cornwall: ancient house, seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe, now a National Trust Property.

2. See Doc. No: 08573.

3. William Henry Edgcumbe, ‘Val’, 4th Earl Mt Edgcumbe (1832–1917), JP & Ld Steward of the Royal Household; WHFT’s nephew ‘Bimbo’, and his wife Lady Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton (1840–1874), who had just given birth to their 3rd daughter, Edith Hilaria.