London
Octr 31.
Dear Henry,
Your letter <1> has followed me to this place where I am come for a short time, or I should have been happy to have seen you at Melbury. <2> I shall not return there to stay for some time, say three weeks or a month, as I going [sic] to Abbotsbury & Moreton <3> when I do, I shall be glad if you will join me.
Believe me Truly Yrs
Ilchester
Notes:
1. Letter not located.
2. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.
3. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, and Moreton, Dorset: home of the Frampton family.