Thursday 14 May 1818
My dear Henry.
We want your assistance very much in deciding what you shall do with yourself during the long vacation – whether we spend the summer in France or in England we shd not at any rate leave Town before the 1st of August There are therefore 2 months of which I conclude you would not like to spend the whole here – what then should you like to do? I am sorry you have failed in making your continental party, for that was a very good plan – our wish of course is that you should be amused without wasting your time. Think on the subject yourself & let me hear from you – James Frampton <1> is dead at last poor little Fellow after a life of great suffering. it is a blessed release for him – & it cannot but be some consolation to those who survive him, that if it had been possible to keep him in existence, it could only have been in a state of misery.
God bless you my love
Yr affe Friend
C.F.
Car & Hor <2> are at a lodging in the Regents Park enjoying the comparatively pure air & very happy.
Henry Talbot Esqre
Trin: Coll:
Cambridge
Notes:
1. A son of James Frampton (1769–1855), High Sheriff, and his wife Lady Harriet Frampton, née Fox Strangways (d. 1844) .
2. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister and Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.