2 Albermarle St
May 21st
My dear Henry
Mr Trahearne thinks he sent you a copy of Sir Edward Carne's <1> Monument at Rome which he got repaired when he was there and had lithographed – his daughter married a Mansel & so we are descended from him – which gives it an additional value to us –
I hope you are coming to London while we are here I did hear you were all coming Mrs Talbot & all your daughters but I want to know where & when? we think of staying till the 8th June Our summer intentions are to go to Chester in July, an archeological Meeting, & then to see Manchester –
William Strangways <2> has just started on his tour of the Pyrenees – Uncle Harry <3> is not in town – but soon coming back – Kit <4> is just gone to look at the Capricorn – the girls are all looking foreward to a cruize – Bertha<5> is vy ambitious & says the West indies may be reached in ten days!
Pray give my love to Mrs Talbot & your daughters & believe me yours affly
Charlotte Traherne
Notes:
1. Sir Edward Carne (c. 1500-1561), MP and Welsh Renaissance scholar. An ambassador to Rome, he is buried there on the Caelian Hill in the narthex of the Church of St. Gregory.
2. William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways (1795-1865), 4th Earl Ilchester; WHFT's favourite uncle; botanist, art collector & diplomat.
3. Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780–1863), MP, WHFT’s uncle.
4. Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803-1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician; WHFT's Welsh cousin.
5. Bertha Isabella (1841-1911), 2nd dau of CRM Talbot, later married John Fletcher (1827-1903), JP.