5. Royal Crescent <1>
Thursday.–
My dear Henry
If you don’t come quite quick (as I wish you) I should be glad if you will contrive some means of transmitting money to me here (by cheque or otherwise as you think best) for I should like to pay my bills weekly. – Pray remember what I told you about my having paid Mr Lawes’s <2> horses that day to Trowbridge. I fear there will be some mistake in his bill, when it comes to be settled. –
I think you [sic] told you my Sisters <3> were in Town, in case you should feel time & inclination to take peep at them. –
If you should chance to meet Mr Mellish <4> in London, you must not congratulate him on his Sister’s <5> marriage – for it is unfortunately at an end in consequence of Mr Monteith’s <6> health. –
Your affectionate
Constance.
For
Henry–
Notes:
1. Bath.
2. Mr Lawes, of Lawes’ coaches.
3. Laura Mundy (1805–1842); Marian Gilder, née Mundy (1806 – 14 October 1860); m. 6 August 1844 William Troward Gilder (d. 1871), Army Surgeon (ret).; WHFT’s sisters-in-law.
4. Richard Charles Mellish (d. 1865), a Clerk in the Foreign Office from 1824 until his retirement in 1855. [See Doc. No: 04713].
5. Mina Mellish.
6. Possibly a misspelling of Charles Granville Stuart Menteath (1800–1880), barrister.