Laycock Abbey
Sunday 2nd
My dear Henry
I have settled to go to Bowood <1> Tuesday & therefore shall no longer want the Globe you so kindly supplied me with. I shall be quite sorry to leave the Abbey it is so very quiet & peaceful & I made myself very snug in your Library, with the unwanted appliances of flowers, novels, workframe & comfortable bergère <2> – I am getting much stronger & am able to eat comfortably – If the weather were not so muggy I should get on still quicker
I hope you will follow the good example of the others & do yourself some real good at Cheltenham Do pray to please me
Yr aff sister
Horatia
I suppose I shall go on to MtE. <3> with Caroline. <4> Her children are to be at Bowood tomorrow.
Notes:
1. Bowood House, nr Calne, Wiltshire, 5 mi NE of Lacock: seat of the Marquess of Lansdowne.
2. Type of easy chair or sofa with cane back and arms.
3. Mt Edgecumbe, near Plymouth: seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe.
4. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.