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Document number: 05560
Date: Sun 08 Feb 1846
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: EDGCUMBE Caroline Augusta, née Feilding
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 10th July 2010

Mount Edgcumbe <1>
Sunday Feby 8th 1846

My dear Henry

I never answered your letter, though I was very much pleased to receive anything so rare. Mr Sotheron <2> did talk a great deal about Harrow to Valletort, <3> & seemed much pleased with him. We get very good accounts of him, & his Tutor seems to be fond of him. He has got up several places in the under shell since Christmas.

I want to inform you what flowers we have now got in the open air. Here is the list. Snowdrops, Crocuses, primroses yellow & lilac double, violets, polyanthus, [Chimonanthus?] fragans, (wh has never lost it’s leaves at all,) stocks wallflowers, anemones, pink china roses, & even the delicate yellow kind, narcissus, [petisforum?], & several plants of Carnations! The myrtles are as green as in summer & their flowers in bud – & in the Conservatory, the orange trees covered with bloom.

Goodbye Yr affte
Sister Caroline

Shall I have your Talbotypes of the Pc of Wales <4> &c, for my next Waiting on the 24th? it lasts a fortnight –

for Henry


Notes:

1. Mt Edgecumbe, near Plymouth: seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe.

2. Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Bucknall Estcourt (1801–1876), MP.

3. William Henry Edgcumbe, ‘Val’, 4th Earl Mt Edgcumbe (1832–1917), JP & Ld Steward of the Royal Household; WHFT’s nephew ‘Bimbo’.

4. Edward VII (1841–1910), King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions and emperor of India from 1901. [See Doc. No: 05464].