Dear Henry
Return this Letter & direct to Melbury <1> for I have not changed my mind to Wright’s <2> great surprize. He wishes you to be reminded that you have no Wine here he says he told you of it, but thinks it likely you forgot it, & when you come back may be uncomfortable par cet oubli <3> –
I wish you would write to Horatia, <4> you see it gives them so much pleasure, & not one Letter has been lost on either side.
I had a Letter from Constance <5> this Mng by which everything seems unsettled again, I cannot exactly make it out but wait for further explanations
aff yr
EF
Notes:
1. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.
2. James Wright, footman to the Talbots & Constable for Lacock.
3. Because of the lack of attention.
4. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.
5. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.