Cotehele House ^<1>
21^st June 1875

My dear Henry

Thanks for your Specimens – We have an orange & red Abutilon too – but your’s [sic] does not look exactly the same.

I enclose a flower of what I suppose to be your Balm. If you will tell me if it is the right thing, you shall have the cuttings at once. My butler has dug up a fine plant of it, & put it in a pot – for you if it lives, & you wish to have it sent.

I should like very much to have some of the “Table cloth”.

I must go out in haste, in order to profit by the fine weather – so rare now-a-days. Our roses are in great beauty & profusion

Y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline

[envelope, imprinted on flap "Cotehele House":]
Henry Fox Talbot Esq^re
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

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Notes:

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