Cotehele House
Calstock
Tavistock.
March 12th 1869
My dear Henry
I enclose Charlie’s <1> letter from Bombay – the copy that is, on thin paper – which I promised to send you to forward to Venice. <2> Pray write & say when you are coming.
Yr affte Sister
Caroline
Notes:
1. Charles Earnest Edgcumbe (1838–1915), JP, WHFT’s nephew.
2. There is an envelope in a private collection addressed in WHFT’s hand: ‘Madame Talbot, Hotel de l’Europe, Venise, Italie’. It is postmarked ‘Chippenham 13 March 1869’ and has an added pencil inscription in another hand ‘? from Charlie Edgcumbe to Caroline, sent on to Constance?’. The letter from Bombay is in the Fox Talbot Collection, the British Library, 30317.