Mount Edgcumbe ^<1>
Monday April 13^th 1846

My dear Henry

I long to hear something about you – & as Horatia ^<2> complains that you never write to her I cannot expect any news of you through her. As soon as you have time, I wish you would write & tell me how you are getting on in London & if all the business will soon be over. Have you shewn the lease to M^r Arber, & is there anyone anxious to take it? Because someone might buy it while we are in it; you know.

Wright, ^<3> I hear, was to go to Town today, to begin cleaning & making ready for us – He must make haste, because we wish to get into it tole tolerably early in May.

We have very stormy & rainy weather – but all the trees & plants are coming out beautifully – the Horsechesnuts are quite out in full leaf – & the gallery is perfumed with cyclamens & hyacinths, & adorned with Salvia Splendens, ^<4> & lovely blue & pink [Glocynias?] – Ernest ^<5> is not very well, & is going very soon to Bath – Baby is so much improved – When she sees me at breakfast she says, “I’se hungry” – & presently if no attention is paid, “I so hungry”, in a most pitiful tone.

Please write something to me –

Y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline

I have desired Stilwell ^<6> to pay Coutts ^<7> £65 for to your Credit, as soon as my Q^r is rec^d which it will soon be.

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Notes:

1. Mt Edgecumbe, near Plymouth: seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe

2. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.

3. James Wright, footman to the Talbots & Constable for Lacock.

4. Scarlet sage.

5. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3^rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law.

6. Of Stilwell & Company.

7. Coutts & Company, bankers, London.