Cotehele: ^<1>
Wednesday August 29^th 1855

My dear Henry

I have been a long time answering your last letter – but in the meantime I have heard from M^r Boger ^<2> with a memorandum of which I enclose a copy. He thinks it is sufficient for your information & mine, & I think, (for a wonder) that I understand it, Will you please therefore do the needful at once? – as delay is always fraught with peril.

I hope you are all enjoying this comparatively fine weather in Scotland – & that the Girls are as happy as we were, once upon a time.

We came here – i.e. Ernestine, M^elle Mosché ^<3> & I, last Friday – were joined on Sunday by Val & L^d Carnarvon, ^<4> & 4 of the Butteels – John B his wife, & 2 youngest Sisters – (The eldest is in waiting on the P^ss Royal ^<5> at Paris – & very much charmed with all the festivities, & the town itself – never having set foot out of England before.) On Monday we gave a champagne luncheon in the great Hall – to which Lady S^t Germans ^<6> brought a large party from P^t Eliot. The day was unluckily wet & gloomy – but we had provided a fiddle – & they danced til ½ p. 8 – when the guests departed. Yesterday was beautiful – & the rest of the people we expected on Monday arrived – & tho’ only partially expected, we did very well. –

L^d M^t E. is in the “Cloud” somewhere^<7> with Charlie & his new Doctor ^<8> – but I don’t exactly know where.

I believe we go back to M^t E. ^<9> on Friday. –

Let me hear from some one soon – & tell me where you are settled.

Y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline

Love to all – & beg Amandier ^<10> to write.

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Notes:

1. Cotehele, Cornwall: ancient house, seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe, now a National Trust Property.

2. See Doc. No: 07171.

3. Ernestine Emma Horatia Edgcumbe (1843-1925), WHFT’s niece. For Mademoiselle Mosché see Doc. No: 08753

4. William Henry Edgcumbe, ‘Val’, 4^th Earl Mt Edgcumbe (1832–1917), JP & Ld Steward of the Royal Household; WHFT’s nephew ‘Bimbo’ and Henry George Herbert, 2^nd Earl of Carnarvon (1772–1833).

5. Victoria Adelaide Mary, Princess Royal (1840–1901).

6. Jerima Granville Eliot, Lady St Germans.

7. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3^rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law. The Cloud was his yacht.

8. Charles Earnest Edgcumbe (1838–1915), JP, WHFT’s nephew. The new physician was reportedly Dr William Pollard Roberts (1826-1913).

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

10. Amélina Petit De Billier, ‘Mamie’, ‘Amandier’ (1798–1876), governess and later close friend of the Talbot family [See Amélina's journal].