Mount Edgcumbe ^<1>
Tuesday June 25^th 1872

My dear Henry

I am so sorry the little flower dropt out. I think it is out of bloom now – but it was I think one petal, like a trumpet, of a red colour.

I send you however a much prettier specimen today – which I never saw anywhere before. It is an Arbutilon – but very different to the common one. I saw it accidentally in an obscure place among some shrubs near the English Gardens – by no means a particularly favorable spot – & yet it seemed very flourishing. It had grown from seed.

I have not been at M^t E. in June for so many years, that no wonder I never saw the blossom before.

You had better send those two plants at once – They will be well taken care of if I am gone. I suppose they sh^d be directed to the Manor office. Ernestine ^<2> will tell you – Could you send me a few more Anemone Apennina by the same opportunity?

Y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline

[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot
Esq^re
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

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Notes:

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

2. Ernestine Emma Horatia Edgcumbe (1843-1925), WHFT’s niece.