Mt Edgcumbe <1>
Tuesday 2nd April
My dear Henry
As I hear you are thinking of taking Sheichelbauer <2>, I must tell you how very highly Harriet & Mr Mundy <3> thought of him – you know he was with them a whole year, & when Noel <4> was ill at Florence, nothing could be more zealous & thoughtful than he was – He was also with Ly Lyttleton <5> abroad & took care of one of her daughters who had been left behind at Wiesbaden I should have put you in mind of him before, only I did not know you wanted a courier or whether he was to be had He speaks very good Italian Mama & Caroline <6> set off this morng but got no farther than Stonehouse – as they were stopped by a letter announcing that Mr Atwood <7> would set off with Val. <8> tomorrow – so to our infinite surprise they appeared again at the end of an hour – They mean to be off tomorrow if nothing new occurs – We had the Lords of the Admiralty to dinner yesterday, & today went on board the Black Eagle to lunch with them – Harry Corry & Sidney Herbert & Captn Corry <9> – They sail tonight for Cork – it has been most beautiful bright weather for the last 6 days
Yr aff sisterHoratia
Notes:
1. Mt Edgecumbe, near Plymouth: seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe.
2. Travelling servant. [See Doc. No: 08362].
3. Harriot Georgiana Mundy, née Frampton (1806-1886), WHFT’s cousin & sister-in-law, and her husband, William Mundy (1801-1877), politician, WHFT’s brother-in-law.
4. Francis Noel Mundy (1833–1903), WHFT’s nephew.
5. Lady Sarah Lyttleton.
6. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother, and Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.
7. Rev Henry Adams Sergison Atwood (1800–1877), author.
8. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law.
9. Henry Thomas Lowry-Corry (1803–1873), son of the 2nd Earl Belmore; Sydney Herbert, Baron Herbert of Lea (1810–1861), politician; and Captain (later Rear Admiral) Armar Lowry-Corry (1793-1855).