Farrance’s Hotel
Friday 4 o’clock
My dear Henry
Horatia <1> begged I would let you know that I had seen her safe off today at ¼ to 3 – The train was to start at ½ past 3. She was much better, & looked a great deal more flourishing than I expected. I surprised her in bed this morning, by arriving by the 8 o’clock train from Windsor – so I had a nice, long, comfortable chat together. Gran mi! was it not? I am going back for Dinner, & come out of Waiting altogether on Tuesday. I am very sorry to hear such a dim account of some of you – Perhaps this disagreable cold <illegible deletion> will agree better than the pleasant warm weather. – Milord <2> has a bad pain in his foot – but has been otherwise very well indeed lately – he has been at the Play, & had Emily Murray <3> to play at chess – great dissipation! Please give Amandier <4> the enclosed receipt from Horatia – & tell her I wrote to her yesterday –
Yrs affly
Caroline
What pens & ink! <5>Notes:
1. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.
2. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law.
3. Amelia ‘Emily’ Matilda Murray (1795–1884), author.
4. Amélina Petit De Billier, ‘Mamie’, ‘Amandier’ (1798–1876), governess and later close friend of the Talbot family [See Amélina's journal ].
5. Caroline’s patience has obviously run out by this point as her writing is considerably smudged over.