[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Horatia - see Doc. No: 06223]

Rome
Tuesday 1^st May 1849

C. sends Matilda ^<1> a kiss for her letter w^h was very nice. We are thinking of going but have not quite settled what day nor which way – possibly the [Ilnena?] road maybe more agreeable than by Civitavecchia – If you will write a line you had better enclose to M^r Bean who will send it after us. Jane ^<2> is still here but going I believe in a day or two. – All is quiet here – the French are gone again – it is a very stupid business –

Y^rs aff^ly
Caroline

I suppose we shall go by the next Steamer

Via di mare Inghilterra
Henry Fox Talbot Esq^re
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Angleterre

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Notes:

1. Matilda Caroline Gilchrist-Clark, ‘Tilly’, née Talbot (1839–1927), WHFT’s 3^rd daughter.

2. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874).