Monday
My Dear Henry
They go off from this place very early Wednesday morning to join Lord Lansdowne <1> in London, & set off to Baden. Therefore we intend going to Laycock tomorrow evening after an early dinner here and you had better come here tomorrow Morning & return with us. Your Aunt <2> expects you to dine here at 3 tomorrow & these clocks you know are fast, but you had better come immediately after Breakfast or you will have no time to see the flowers which are in great beauty – We are just arrived from Tottenham Park – Shelburne <3> is called out to the Yeomanry to quell the Chartists at Trowbridge
affy yrs
E F
Notes:
1. Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780–1863), MP, WHFT’s uncle.
2. Louisa Emma Petty Fitzmaurice, née Fox Strangways, Marchioness of Lansdowne (1785-1851), wife of Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne; Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, 1837-1838; WHFT's aunt.
3. Henry Fitzmaurice, Lord Shelburne, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne (1816–1866), MP.