My Dear Henry

I answer y^r note to Melbury ^<1> because you desire it; but I have a notion that mine will find you at Moreton. ^<2>

We shall be delighted to have you, and if you can make your week a month you will please us all – They talk of spending a day or two at Trelowarren (S^r R Vyvyan) ^<3> on Monday sennight ^<4> to see from thence the Lizard & Kinans cove^<5> – but possibly that engagement will not hold water for so long before hand – but this would make no difference in y^r time; for it will be a good opportunity for you to see those lions, if we go there – & if we do not, we shall make much of you at home – If you travel in the mail – I recommend your taking the Plymouth mail, which will carry you from Dorchester to Plymouth in 10 or 12 hours and you may have a good nights rest there before the mail leaves Plymouth for this place; which is an affair of 9 hours –

I am dear Henry y^r aff^te
C. Lemon

Carclew. ^<6>
Penryn
Nov^r 6–

let me know when you come & a man shall meet you at Perran wharf^<7> to shew you the way –

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Notes:

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

2. Moreton, Dorset: home of the Frampton family.

3. Trelowarren House and Estate on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, home of Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, 8^th Bart (1800-1879), Tory MP, FRS. He gained his title on 27 January 1820 upon the death of his father, establishing the earliest year of this letter.

4. A period of seven days and nights; a week.

5. Kynance Cove just north of the Lizard Point. An area popular with Victorian visitors for its red and green serpentine rock and for its rock formations. Lion Rock is a noted promontory running into the sea.

6. Carclew, Cornwall, 3 mi N of Penryn: seat of Sir Charles Lemon.

7. Perran Wharf; its foundry was one of the largest in Cornwall.