Mt Edgcumbe <1>
Thursday eveg
My dear Henry
We were afraid some accident had happened to prevent your arrival today, thinking, of course, you had slept at Ivy-bridge, <2> & sat in the garden all the evening watching every boat that crossed, in hopes it was you. I still wonder you did not cross, even late, rather than go to the Hotel –
We shall be delighted to see you at 10, or any time after that suits you, & if the weather is bad, or threatens, Ld V. <3> will send his large boat to fetch you, & a man to the hotel to direct – but if the weather is fine, it will be wholly unnecessary; as The <Jian?> plaisir <4> shall be in readiness at the passage to convey your things to the house, & yourselves too, unless you prefer walking
Addio fratello carissimo <5>
Yr affte Sister
Caroline
Notes:
1. Mt Edgecumbe, near Plymouth: seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe
2. See Doc. No: 03281.
3. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law.
4. Pleasure.
5. Goodbye dear brother.