Mount Edgcumbe <1>
Devonport.
1st Octr 1872
My dear Henry
You will not be surprized, after the letter I wrote to you on Saturday, to hear that poor dear Louisa Gallwey’s <2> illness has ended as we feared – & that she breathed her last on Sunday.
Lady Gallwey <3> has been very kind in writing to me several times – & yesterday I had a telegram saying that she died quite peacefully.
It is another link gone of old times, & happy remembrances of childhood. She was always so kind & even tempered, & always so glad to see me.
We spent a very happy time together alone, last year, at Cotehele. <4>
I have put off my visit to Abbotsbury, <5> & we stay here this week, & then return to Cotehele.
My love to Constance & Amandier, <6> & all at Lacock – Let me hear from you –
Yr affte sister
Caroline
[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. Mt Edgecumbe, near Plymouth: seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe.
2. Louisa Gallwey (d. 1872). [See Doc. No: 09911].
3. Probably Lady Emily Anne Payne-Gallwey, wife of Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 2nd Baronet.
4. Cotehele, Cornwall: ancient house, seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe, now a National Trust Property.
5. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.
6. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife and Amélina Petit De Billier, ‘Mamie’, ‘Amandier’ (1798–1876), governess and later close friend of the Talbot family [See Amélina's journal].