Bowood <1>
Friday 3 Novr
My dear Henry
I hear you are at Lacock are you going to stay? I would offer to pay you a day’s visit Tuesday or Wednesday if convenient The Llewelyns <2> are coming here Monday – I have had some interesting letters from Emily Murray <3> –
Your affte
W F S
Notes:
1. Bowood House, nr Calne, Wiltshire, 5 mi NE of Lacock: seat of the Marquess of Lansdowne.
2. Emma Thomasina Llewelyn, née Talbot (1806–1881), photographer; WHFT’s Welsh cousin and family.
3. Amelia ‘Emily’ Matilda Murray (1795–1884), author and Maid of Honor to Queen Victoria. Although a strong advocate in the Royal Court for the education of delinquent and abandoned children, she defended the institution of slavery in the American South after her travels there between July 1854 and October 1855. The publication of her memoir on this forced her resignation as Woman of the Bedchamber. Murray, Letters from the United States, Cuba, and Canada (London: J. W. Parker & Son, 1856).