Windsor Castle
May 6th 1841
My dear Henry
Lord Erroll <1> is going to give me an order to let you into the private grounds and gardens with your instruments, any day you like when the Court is absent – As I have been here with him nearly a week, I should have had it sooner had I known he was the proper person to apply to – But as I was persuaded Ld Uxbridge <2> was at the head of everything connected with the Palace, I never thought of asking him till I was told of my error – I dare say he will give it me today – shall I send it to Laycock, or keep it till you come? We have been here since Saturday, & were to have gone back to town today – but Pe Albert <3> is so fond of Windsor, that we stay a day longer –The drives in open carriages with four fast ponies are certainly delightful – & the scenery just now is quite beautiful – The oaks are just beginning to clothe themselves with tiny leaves – & the Beach are in the greatest beauty possible – of the most lovely green, feathering down to the ground, with dark hollys growing under them – The children <4> are here enjoying themselves – Ld Mt E – <5> went to Bromley for change of air, but was ill again & came home Tuesday – he is better again now, & very impatient to be off
Yrs affly
Caroline
Notes:
1. William George Hay Errol, 17th Earl of Erroll (1801–1846), Lord Steward. See Doc. No: 04253. There is no specific record of his visit, but WHFT commented on 1 June 1841 that "a very beautiful afternoon, & Windsor looked extremely well in the setting sun" - see Doc. No: 04266.
2. Henry William Paget, Lord Uxbridge, Marquess of Anglesey (1768–1854).
3. Prince Albert (1819–1861).
4. William Henry Edgcumbe, ‘Val’, 4th Earl Mt Edgcumbe (1832–1917), JP & Ld Steward of the Royal Household; WHFT’s nephew ‘Bimbo’, Charles Earnest Edgcumbe (1838–1915), JP, WHFT’s nephew, and Ernestine Emma Horatia Edgcumbe (1843-1925), WHFT’s niece.
5. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law.