Bowood <1>
Monday
My Dear Henry
I lose no time in telling you that Mr Moore <2> is arrived here to day & consequently you can go to Sackville Street <3> if you wish it. He pored over the old Records till he got a deterioration of blood to his head & was obliged to leave off – rather alarmed very much indeed. There is a large Party here & very agreeable We hear that the box you conveyed has safely arrived at Melbury. <4> I long to hear again of dear little Matilda <5> as she was the more ailing
Affy yrs
EF
I have heard from Horatia <6> from Trieste quite enchanted with the climate after Germany
Notes:
1. Bowood House, nr Calne, Wiltshire, 5 mi NE of Lacock: seat of the Marquess of Lansdowne.
2. Thomas Moore (1780–1852), Irish poet.
3. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.
4. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.
5. Matilda Caroline Gilchrist-Clark, ‘Tilly’, née Talbot (1839–1927), WHFT’s 3rd daughter.
6. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.