Richmond
Thursday Aug. 24^th

My dear Henry –

after I wrote Tuesday night Papa ^<1> complained of pain in his ankle & it was discovered that a discharge had taken place there, where it seems M^r C. ^<2> had suspected for some days that matter was forming This may account for his having been so very restless & agitated for the last few days – It has certainly appeared to relieve him, tho’ in consequence he was extremely weak yesterday & M^r Bowling ^<3> was afraid he might faint & gave him a great dele deal of wine & brandy & nourishing things – He has had a good night & today they think him a little better – the tongue & pulse both improved – As to the swelling above the knee it is much in the same state – but he complains less when the leg is dressed which is a good sign – M^r Bowling still remains here – Caroline ^<4> went to town this morn^g with L^d V. ^<5> who goes Saturday to Leamington – & she will return here – Bimbo ^<6> comes today as L^d M^t E. ^<7> is going tomorrow to M^t Edgcumbe ^<8> – Addio caro ^<9>

y^r aff^te
Horatia

I hear from Louisa Frampton ^<10> they are tolerably well at Melbury ^<11> – Charlton ^<12> is at Trieste & Harriet ^<13> gone to Dieppe!

W. Henry Fox Talbot Esq^re
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham

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Notes:

1. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.

2. Mr Cutler, Charles Feilding’s physician.

3. Mr Bowling, physician.

4. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.

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

6. William Henry Edgcumbe, ‘Val’, 4^th Earl Mt Edgcumbe (1832–1917), JP & Ld Steward of the Royal Household; WHFT’s nephew ‘Bimbo’.

7. Richard Edgcumbe, 2^nd Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe (1764–1839).

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

9. Goodbye dear.

10. Louisa Charlotte Frampton (1808-1885), author.

11. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.

12. William Charlton Frampton (b. 1811), rector of Moreton, brother of Harriot Georgiana Mundy, née Frampton (1806-1886), WHFT’s cousin & sister-in-law.

13. Harriot Georgiana Mundy, née Frampton (1806-1886), WHFT’s cousin & sister-in-law.