My dear Henry

Uncle Harry & John ^<1> dine here to go to the Play with me ensuite- ^<2> It is rather late, but if this note finds you at home, will you come & dine too? at ½ past five? – or at any rate join us there afterwards The Tempest & Chaos Lady Holland’s ^<3> Box at Covent Garden ^<4> – Private Box door Princes Place

Y^rs aff^ly
Caroline

I heard today from Horatia & Aunt Louisa, ^<5> who thinks Mamma ^<6> better for her short séjour ^<7> at Bowood ^<8>
Will you dine with us tomorrow, to meet Uncle Harry & John – perhaps W^m & Ste? ^<9>

Henry Fox Talbot Esq^re
Sackville S^t

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Notes:

1. Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3^rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–1858), and John George Charles Fox Strangways (1803–1859), MP.

2. Afterwards.

3. Elizabeth Fox, née Vassall, Lady Holland (d. 1845).

4. London.

5. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister and Louisa Emma Petty Fitzmaurice, née Fox Strangways, Marchioness of Lansdowne (1785-1851), wife of Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3^rd Marquess of Lansdowne; Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, 1837-1838; WHFT's aunt.

6. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.

7. Stay.

8. Bowood House, nr Calne, Wiltshire, 5 mi NE of Lacock: seat of the Marquess of Lansdowne.

9. William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4^th Earl of Ilchester (1795–1865), botanist, art collector & diplomat and Stephen Fox Strangway, Lord Stavordale (1817–25 May 1848), 2^nd son of Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3^rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–3 Jan 1858).