Moreton <1>
Wednesday June 22nd
My dear Henry
I write this in case we should not be able to get to you tomorrow, to say that Bimbo <2> has had a chill & renewal of a feverish cold, caught I suppose by this change of weather, & perhaps by not having quite shaken off the former one – We sent for the doctor yesterday, & today he is without fever & as sprightly a possible – but he thinks it adviseable to remain here one day longer that he may get quite well before the journey – If however he improves sufficiently before the evening, we will try & be with you tomorrow night – if not you must not expect us till Friday – It is very tiresome that the cross Post is so long going, as you will be expecting us all tomorrow evening, without any possibility of our letting you know in time that we are not coming – Nothing is so disagreable – but it is not my fault this time –
Yr affte Sister
Caroline
Henry Fox Talbot Esqre
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Notes:
1. Moreton, Dorset: home of the Frampton family.
2. William Henry Edgcumbe, ‘Val’, 4th Earl Mt Edgcumbe (1832–1917), JP & Ld Steward of the Royal Household; WHFT’s nephew ‘Bimbo’.