Mt Edgcumbe <1>
Friday 28th
My dear Henry
Caroline <2> is much pleased to hear you are thinking of coming this way & hopes you will come now & meet Aunt Mary <3> who we expect today. It was very good of her to undertake so long a journey & I hope it will do her & Mary good – & I am sure it would to you too, it is so bright & beautiful. Uncle H. & Ste <4> are here and the Petrel There are a great many yachts – Ld Anglesea’s <5> Pearl Sir W. Gallweys <6> Albatross Mr Bentinck’s <7> Dream Ld Blandford <8>s Fair Rosamond & quantities more that enliven the waters. I advise you to come by the new railroad to Teignmouth – & thro’ Torquay to Totness [sic] it is so pretty –
Love to all
Yr aff sister
Horatia
I think Aix la Chapelle is quite given up Ld Mt E is so wonderfully well. There must be a family reunion at Lausanne – Harriet, <9> Car. & Mr Kerrison, Susan, Fanny & George Strangways & Jane <10>
Notes:
1. Mt Edgecumbe, near Plymouth: seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe.
2. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.
3. Lady Mary Lucy Cole, née Strangways, first m. Talbot (1776–1855), WHFT’s aunt.
4. Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–1858) and his son Stephen Fox Strangways (1817–1848).
5. She probably means Henry Paget, 2nd Marquis of Anglesey.
6. Sir William Payne Gallwey, 2nd Bart (1807-1881), son of Lt Gen Sir William Payne Gallwey, 1st Bart (1759-1831) and Lady Harriet Payne Gallwey (1784-1845), née Quin.
7. Probably related to William Cavendish-Bentinck (1774–1839), 1st Governor-General of India (1833–1835).
8. George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough, Lord Blandford (1844–1892).
9. Harriot Georgiana Mundy, née Frampton (1806-1886), WHFT’s cousin & sister-in-law.
10. Caroline Margaret Fox Strangways (d. 1895), daughter of the 3rd Lord Ilchester, WHFT's cousin; and her husband Sir Edward Kerrison (d. 1886); Susan (d. 1854) and Fanny Fox Strangways (d. 1863), and their brother George (1802–1852), children of the Rev the Hon Charles Strangways; Jane, probably a relation the Fox Strangways.