Cotehele house <1>
Calstock
Tavistock.
Octr 5th 1866
My dear Henry
I am so hunted for time today, that I have only just eno’ to tell you that we are going to Pentillie Castle, 6 miles off, on Thursday next, for 2 days – so shall be quite ready to receive you on Saturday next the 13th & shall be delighted if you will come up that day, by Steamer – wh leaves North Corner, (at the West End of Devonport) at, 4 o’clock or ½ past 4. If the weather is wet, you can take a carriage & pair fm Rt Hotel Devonport but Steamer only cost 6d – & Horses, I suppose, 25s/ּ or more. Try & bring Rosamond. It wd be so nice. I don’t advise Amandier, much as I shd like to see her –
If you write to Pentillie direct
Pentillie Castle Saltash
if here –
Calstock Tavistock.
Love to all –
Yr affte Sister
Caroline
The Vals <2> were to be at Claridge’s Hotel Brook St today or tomorrow – En route Southwards.
Notes:
1. Cotehele, Cornwall: ancient house, seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe, now a National Trust Property.
2. William Henry Edgcumbe, ‘Val’, 4th Earl Mt Edgcumbe (1832–1917), JP & Ld Steward of the Royal Household; WHFT’s nephew ‘Bimbo’; and his 1st wife, Lady Katherine Elizabeth, née Hamilton (1840-1874).