Knightstone ^<1>
November 10^th

My dear Henry

We will expect you on Saturday & prepare a bed for you in the next house. – And what time do you think you shall come? – in time for dinner? – If we knew the hour we could walk to meet you in case of the weather being fine – I hope the Sun will shine & enable you to make a Calotype of our Island.- ^<2>

I believe I shall want between £80 & £90 – to pay our six weeks accounts at Weston – house rent coals &c – And I name it now in case you like to bring it with you – I dare say you recollect my drawing out, at Clifton ^<3> nearly all the last amount that was put into the Melksham ^<4> Bank. – Miss Bathurst has invited the children ^<5> to drink tea with her today, to meet 2 little grand daughters of the Bishop of Bath & Wells ^<6>– They are delighted at the thought of so much pleasure – & are going in a wheel chair as the day is damp. – Yesterday we had much rain. –

Your aff^te
Constance. –

We shall be happy to see M^r Strangways ^<7> if he comes with you –

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Notes:

1. Weston-super-Mare.

2. No such image has been identified.

3. Bristol.

4. Melksham, Wiltshire: market town near Lacock, 2 miles S.

5. Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1st daughter; Rosamond Constance ‘Monie’ Talbot (1837–1906), artist & WHFT’s 2nd daughter; Matilda Caroline Gilchrist-Clark, ‘Tilly’, née Talbot (1839–1927), WHFT’s 3rd daughter.

6. George Henry Law (1761–1845). He was bishop successively of Chester (1812–1824) and Bath and Wells (1824–1845).

7. Probably William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (1795–1865), botanist, art collector & diplomat. [See Doc. No: 04560].