Sackville Street <1>
Thursday Septr 14th
My dear Henry
Mr Montgomerie <2> arrived last night from Garboldisham & came here for a short time in the evening - He had had a very fatiguing journey part of which was in his gig in a pouring rain, & had had nothing to eat from 6 in the morning till he got to London. - He seemed altogether fatigued & unwell, & Mamma <3> begged I would write to you to take care of him - We were much touchées with his kind feelings, & his not minding the trouble of taking all that long journey - besides the difficulty &c of finding a remplaçant <4> &c - Very different indeed has he behaved to George Finch! <5> but he is not a saint! whether that is the cause of his strange conduct, for strange it certainly is in him, I do not know - He ought to have been the first person to offer - particularly as poor Papa <6> followed his father to the grave, besides having attended him during his last illness -
Please to take care of Ld V- <7> too - he writes me word he was ill in bed all Monday, & is hardly equal to the journey -
Yr affte Sister
Caroline
Notes:
1. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.
2. Rev George Stephen Molyneux Montgomerie(1790-1850), close friend of Talbot family, artist, Rector of Garboldisham, near Thetford, Norfolk.
3. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773-1846), WHFT's mother.
4. Replacement, stand-in.
5. George Finch (1794-1870), JP & MP.
6. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780-1837), Royal Navy; WHFT's step-father.
7. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797-1861), WHFT's brother-in-law.