Malvern ^<1>
October 19^th. 1812

My Dear Henry

I do not know why you should have fancied us at Melbury, ^<2> however by this time my Letter will have informed you we are here. We saw during our Tour

Ragley - Lord Hertford's ^<3>
Warwick Castle - L^d Warwick's ^<4>
Kenilworth Castle - ^<5>
Combe Abbey - Lord Craven's ^<6>
Newnham Paddox - L^d Denbigh's ^<7>
Burleigh - Lord Exeter's ^<8>
Grimsthorpe - Lord Gwydir's ^<9>
Stapleford - L^d Harborough's ^<10>
Wollaton Hall - Lord Middleton's ^<11>
Newstead Abbey - Lord Byron's ^<12>
Hardwicke - Duke of Devonshire's ^<13>
Welbeck - Duke of Portland's ^<14>
Worksop - Duke of Norfolk's ^<15>
Conisborough Castle. Duke of Leeds ^<16>
Nottingham Castle - Duke of Newcastle ^<17>
Wentworth House - M^r Vernon's ^<18>
Wentworth Castle - Lord Fitzwilliams ^<19>
Sandbeck - Lord Scarborough's ^<20>
Chatsworth - Duke of Devonshire
Haddon Hall - Duke of Rutland ^<21>
Kedlestone - Lord Scarsdale's ^<22>
Hagley - Lord Lyttelton's ^<23>
The Leasowes ^<24> - which did belong to the Poet Shenstone ^<25>

M^r F. ^<26> wrote to D^r Butler ^<27> some time ago to say you had leave to go to Holland House ^<28> whenever you were sent for, but if it should occur after the Weather becomes cold & the Evenings dark I should think you had better defer the visit till a more convenient opportunity, as you would have to return Sunday Night to be ready for Monday Morning. I hope you will guard against Chilblains in time this year, as you suffered so much from them before. Why don't you write to me? I wrote to you ^<29> the day after we got here -

God bless you

Y^rs ever
E F

M^r Talbot
Rev^d D^r Butler's
Harrow ^<30>
Middlesex
Malvern. Oct. 19. 1812. ^<31>

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Notes:

1. Malvern, or Great Malvern, 9 miles SW of Worcestershire.

2. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.

3. Francis Seymour-Ingram, 2^nd Marquis of Hertford (1743-1822), owner of Ragley Hall, Warwickshire.

4. George Greville, 2^nd Earl of Warwick (1746-1816), owner of Warwick Castle, Warwick.

5. Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire.

6. William Craven, 1^st Earl of Craven (1770-1825), owner of Combe Abbey, Warwickshire.

7. William Basil Percy Feilding, 7^th Earl of Denbigh (1796-1865), owner of Newnham Paddox, Lutterworth.

8. Brownlow Cecil, 2^nd Marquis of Exeter (1795-1894), owner of Burleigh House, Stamford.

9. Lindsey Merrik Peter Burrell, 1^st Lord of Gwydir (d. 1848), owner of Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire.

10. Robert Sherard, 6^th Earl of Harborough (1797-1859), owner of Stapleford Park, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

11. Henry Willoughby, 6^th Baron Middleton (1761-1835), owner of Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire.

12. George Gordon Byron, 6^th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824), owner of Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire.

13. Sir William George Spencer Cavendish, 6^th Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858), owner of Hardwick Hall and Chatsworth, Chesterfield.

14. William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 4^th Duke of Portland (1786-1854), owner of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire.

15. Bernard Edward Howard, 12^th Duke of Norfolk (1765-1842), owner of Worksop Manor, Nottinghamshire. The house was sold to the Duke of Newcastle in 1839 and promptly demolished.

16. George William Frederick Osborne, 6^th Duke of Leeds (1775-1838), owner of Conisborough Castle, Yorkshire.

17. Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4^th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne (1785-1851), owner of Nottingham Castle, Nottinghamshire.

18. Probably Henry Vernon-Wentworth, owner of Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire.

19. William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4^th Earl Fitzwilliam of Ireland and 2^nd Earl Fitzwilliam of England (1748-1833), owner of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire.

20. Richard Lumley, 6^th Earl of Scarbrough (1757-1832), owner of Sandbeck Park and Tickhill Castle, Rotherham, Yorkshire.

21. John Henry Manners, 5^th Duke of Rutland (1778-1857), owner of Haddon Hall, Bakewell.

22. Nathaniel Curzon, 2^nd Baron Scarsdale (1751-1837), owner of Keddleston Hall, Derby.

23. William Henry Lyttelton, 3^rd Lord (1782-1837), owner of Hagley Hall, Stourbridge.

24. The Leasowes, priory in the parish of Halesowen, Worcestershire.

25. William Shenstone (1714-1763), poet and former owner of the Leasowes.

26. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780-1837), Royal Navy; WHFT's step-father.

27. Rev George Butler (1774-1853), Headmaster at Harrow.

28. Holland House, Kensington, London, built in 1605 by Sir Walter Cope.

29. Letter not located.

30. Harrow School: WHFT attended from 1811-1815 and his son Charles from 1855-1859.

31. Written in another hand at the back of address panel.