Private
Simla<1>
Augt 16 – 1838
My dear Henry
I send you the deed of disclaimer executed as you have desired and hope that the paper which I sent to you many months ago will have answered the request in view – I have many instances here of the extreme inconvenience and embarrassment which occasionally arise from the necessity of sending legal papers from England to India for execution, & do not hesitate therefore in resigning the trusteeship<2> – all are well with me here and I hope that this letter will find you and all that belong to you well – I shall be glad when I may be able, though with many a mournful reflection to renew the friendship which has subsisted with you all for so many years
most truly [& ?]
Auckland
Notes:
1. Simla (or Shimla), in Himachal Pradesh, later the official summer capitol of the British in India. Lord Auckland had a house on Elysium Hill - afterwards it became a school and was known as Auckland House.
2. WHFT's step-father, Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780-2 September 1837), Royal Navy, had named Lord Auckland as both executor and trustee under his will of 1834.