London
Sunday [illegible deletion]
1^st March

My dear Henry

Mama ^<1> had a very bad & restless night, but is quieter now – & D^r Holland ^<2> who was here this morning, thinks her a little better. Aunt Louisa ^<3> is here with me now helping to nurse her, & you know she excels in that art. Mama has none of that pain now but suffers very much from faintness & sickishness & is very weak –

y^r aff^te
Horatia

Mama says she would like to see you & hopes you will come up tomorrow as you originally intended. Tho’ it is Sunday Aunt L. has undertaken to send this so that it sh^d reach you tomorrow morn^g & I shall expect you accordingly – but hope you may find her better –

D^r H. is very attentive & W^r[?] has slept here these 2 nights to be at hand.

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Notes:

1. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.

2. Dr Holland, physician.

3. Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3^rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780–1863), MP, WHFT’s uncle.