Lacock
Janry 10th 1845
My Dear Mother
I told you I was still at home in a little note which accompanied the Art Union, <1> but I am afraid you did not see it.
What did you think of the new plan of copying engravings of which they sent us a specimen, which I forwarded to you?
How did the Christening <2> go off? What is the second name, besides Leonora? Has Horatia <3> been to see Louisa Frampton? <4>
I am going this evening to Bath for 2 or 3 days, and then to London. – Direct to Lacock, as usual.
The weather is mild, but foggy and very dark; which has continued a long time. Pray remember me to Traherne & say how sorry I am to have missed them. Harriet <5> is gone on a visit to Jane <6> at Merthyrmawr, <7> which is a sign that Jane feels herself better –
Your affte
Henry
Notes:
1. The Art-Union, Monthly Journal of the Fine Arts and the Arts, Decorative, Ornamental (London).
2. See Doc. No: 05150.
3. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.
4. Louisa Charlotte Frampton.
5. Harriot Georgiana Mundy, née Frampton (1806-1886), WHFT’s cousin & sister-in-law.
6. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874).
7. Merthyr Mawr, Glamorgan, on River Ogwr.