Wednesday
My Dear Henry
I send you a choice of Albums, that you may chuse that best adapted to Tuscany. Caroline <1> took the green one to the Queen, <2> who seemed to take an interest as well as P. Albert, <3> C– said they liked them much & really admired the great progress you had made since Emily Murray <4> shewed them two years ago. P. Albert has a great knowledge of the Arts, & thinks your discovery will be of great consequence to them. Caroline said her brother would be <pleased?> to do some on purpose for her Majesty, to which she responded she should like it very much. She gave C. her picture yesterday in a bracelet. What is to be done with all those photographs you left in frames in the Drawing rooms? Let me know by return of post – Yr aunt Mary <5> is here
Adieu <6>
Notes:
1. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister. She was lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria.
2. Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom (1837–1901), Empress of India (1876–1901).
3. Prince Albert (1819–1861).
4. Amelia ‘Emily’ Matilda Murray (1795–1884), author.
5. Lady Mary Lucy Cole, née Strangways, first m. Talbot (1776–1855), WHFT’s aunt.
6. Goodbye.