My dear Henry <1>
Mr F’s <2> gout will prevent our leaving town – his foot is swelled so much he cannot get on any kind of Shoe & suffers much pain –
Thursday is now fixed for our going but I am quite sure it will not be before Saturday – Dr Kerrison <3> is our daily visitor
I have this moment received yours with optical illusions & it has decided us to stay till Saturday, as you certainly come on Friday. Indeed I hardly think Mr F. could move before, tho’ he now thinks he could on Thursday. To night there is a Party at Lansdowne House <4> & Music at Lady Burghersh’s <5>
London, March nineteen 1832 Ch Lemon <6>
Henry Talbot Esqre
Lacock abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. This is apparently a note on the wrapper of some other letter to WHFT.
2. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.
3. Robert Masters Kerrison, MD.
4. Lansdowne House, London: home of the Marquis of Lansdowne, WHFT's uncle and cousins.
5. Priscilla Fane, née Welleslley-Pole, Countess of Westmorland (1793–1879), wife of Lord Burghersh who in 1841 succeeded as 11th Earl of Westmorland.
6. Sir Charles Lemon (1784–1868), politician & scientist; WHFT’s uncle.