1 Stable Yard
Friday Jany 18th 1850
My dear Henry
I have sent Horatia <1> a letter just received from Uncle John <2> – so you must change your rhymes thus:
O zio amato!
O dolce fato!
I don’t know whether there is such a word bye-the-bye? –
She had better write to him: Let me hear on Monday morning, if the Settlements are ready or not – & when they will be sent for signature.
Mr Atwood <3> told me vivâ voce, <4> that the [illegible] met on the 2nd but that Charlie <5> might remain if we liked till Tuesday 5th Feby –
I don’t think the first time it signifies at all not sending them at the beginning. Charlie did not go for nearly 3 weeks, I think, after the meeting. Mr A. gives an excellent character of him, both as to conduct, & abilities. I purpose coming to you per Express on Monday – but shd like a line in the morning You are particularly requested not to wait Dinner for me.
Yr affte Sister
Caroline
Notes:
1. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.
2. John George Charles Fox Strangways (1803–1859), MP.
3. Rev Henry Adams Sergison Atwood (1800–1877), author.
4. By oral testimony.
5. Charles Earnest Edgcumbe (1838–1915), JP, WHFT’s nephew.