Margam <1>
4th Feby
My Dear Henry
Ly Charlotte <2> says there is always room for you at Margam. As I have been ill ever since I came, I must stay a week longer than I intended or I shall have seen nothing. The large Party went away yesterday, & my Sister Mary <3> came. So she is nursing me as she did at Laycock Abbey five years ago. I am much better, but the Influenza is as prevalent in this neighborhood as in Wilts Shire.
They want you to take some views of the house when you come, but I suppose that sans Nicole <4> it would be too much trouble to you
Aff Yrs
E F
Notes:
1. Margam Park, Glamorgan: home of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot.
2. Lady Charlotte Talbot, née Butler (1809–1846), wife of CRM Talbot.
3. Lady Mary Lucy Cole, née Strangways, first m. Talbot (1776–1855), WHFT’s aunt.
4. ‘Without Nicole’ (that is, Nicolaas Henneman (1813–1898), Dutch, active in England; WHFT’s valet, then assistant; photographer).