Dear Henry
I am very sorry not to have been Able to see you or Mrs Talbot <1> while you have been in town<.> Caroline’s <2> has been a most alarming & sudden attack as she was quite well the day we left your house & was taken ill the same evening & has been delirious ever since until to day but I hope now the worst is past, but I fear it will be many days before she can leave her bed – Many thanks for the offer of your house I think I ought to make you dispenses for hiring My rooms but as I had made my arrangements here as soon as we came & Knew you must let <illegible deletion> yr servant know before you came I thought there was no danger of our clashing<.> With kind remembrance to Mrs Talbot believe me
Yrs Sincerely
H P G
Henry F. Talbot Esqre
Notes:
1. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.
2. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.