Margam ^<1>

18^th Feb^y

My Dear Henry

We leave this next Wednesday for Merthyr Mawr, ^<2> where we remain till the Monday following when we move with Jane ^<3> to Coidriglan ^<4> & cross the Water with her on Wednesday the 28^th & in the Evening of that day hope to find our selves & you at the Nunnery of the Augustine Sisters.

I have not enjoyed Myself on account of the Influenza, but Horatia ^<5> has & is all the better for change of air, tho’ it is as damp here as in any part of England.

I will not make this longer for fear you should not have time to read it

aff^ly Y^rs

E F

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Notes:

1. Margam Park, Glamorgan: home of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot.

2. Merthyr Mawr, Glamorgan, on River Ogwr.

3. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874).

4. Misspelling of Coedriglan, near Cardiff, Wales: home of the Rev John Montgomerie Traherne, husband of WHFT’s cousin Charlotte.

5. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.