Monday
My Dear Henry
Pray desire Nicole <1> to bring the double-green Candlestick with Shades which was used every Eg in the little Dining Room, & to ask Dixie No 3 Bond Street, for my new Spectacles he was to make.
It was quite dark when I got here yesterday Evg I was so warm & comfortable in my own carriage all the way – & by an uncommon caprice of Fortune was placed exactly in the middle of two trains till we got to Swindon, the safest place I could be in. Probably there they detached the Cirencester Train.
I was hardly out of the carriage before Sophie asked me with a face of alarm if it was true that you are so ill – Mr Sotheron <2> had called here in the Morning to enquire & seemed She said very much concerned What can have given rise to such a report?
This House looks so comfortable so clean & so spacious! I cannot help walking about it & exclaiming to myself Every minute how very comfortable! It certainly looks to the greatest advantage after the blacks of London. The Sun is shining as bright as possible
affly
E F
If you are still constant to coffee you had better bring someNotes:
1. Nicolaas Henneman (1813–1898), Dutch, active in England; WHFT’s valet, then assistant; photographer.
2. Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Bucknall Estcourt (1801–1876), MP. Until 1839 he was known as Bucknall Estcourt. From 1839–1855 he assumed the name Sotheron, and from 1855 Estcourt.