Mount E. ^<1>
Saturday 20^th August

Dear Henry

Thanks for the seed – As you are so near, do come & see the Aloe in bloom – It is getting beautiful – & is the last of the large ones, w^h have all flowered in turn & died – so you have no chance of seeing another. Please do. It is an age since you were here.

Milord ^<2> has been on board 10 or 12 days – but only in harbour & the Sound – He is only tolerably well.

M^r Gaisford ^<3> waited for the Nicholls, ^<4> who are at Tunbridge Wells, whither Aunt Mary ^<5> was to join them. He is now I believe at, or on his way to the Kerrison’s –

Balnacarra Lodge
Lochalsh
Rossshire [sic]

The Post waits – so adieu –

Y^r aff^te sister,
Caroline

---

Notes:

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

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

3. Capt Thomas Gaisford (1816–1898), JP, WHFT’s brother-in-law.

4. Dr John Nicholl (1797–1853), MP; and his wife, Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796-1874), WHFT's cousin.

5. Lady Mary Lucy Cole, née Strangways, first m. Talbot (1776–1855), WHFT’s aunt.