Sackville St <1>
Saturday
Dear Talbot
I have sent your letter.
Caroline & her child <2> are going on their steady forward course, from which neither have ever deviated an inch.
She comes down to the drawing room tomorrow.
We have had no fogg worthy of notice & yesterday and to-day have been quite fine
Most truly yrs
Valletort
Notes:
1. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.
2. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister, and William Henry Edgcumbe, ‘Val’, 4th Earl Mt Edgcumbe (1832–1917), JP & Ld Steward of the Royal Household; WHFT’s nephew ‘Bimbo’.