Mount Edgcumbe, Devonport.
Sept 10. 1876.

My dear Uncle Henry

I must write you one line to assure you of my sincere sympathy in the sorrow which the loss of your dear old friend ^<1> must have caused to you & yours. Her vacant place will leave a sad blank in your family circle, & her true friendship & genial companionship will I am sure be long & affectionately remembered especially by those among whom she lived so intimately at Lacock. I have not seen my mother ^<2> since she received the last news as she is across the water nursing another old friend in sickness – but I am sure she will feel it very much –

Please give my kindest love to my Aunt & cousins & Believe me Y^r aff^te nephew –
Mount Edgcumbe

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Notes:

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

2. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.