[engraved notepaper:]
Capenoch
Thornhill.
N.B.

March 10^th 1863.

My dear Papa,

I hope you got my message about our having engaged ourselves to remain here till Friday – I hope you won’t mind putting off coming to Speddoch for a little while, when we may perhaps have better weather again – for it is so cold today – the whole ground covered with snow this morning – that I think you would hardly have ventured to come tomorrow, if we had gone back as we first intended on Tuesday ^today.. – All the servants at Speddoch have gone down to Dumfries to see “King Crispin’s procession” in a carriage and nine grey horses – Here they are to have a bonfire & light up the house – & the volontiers have been popping all day in the village of Penpont close bye – but it has been a miserable cold day for holiday people.

I hope you have had a pleasanter day on the whole We made Baby a wedding favour of white ribbon with a rose-bud in it, and he has worn it all day.

There are various flags stuck up in several directions –

I got your letter yesterday brought over from Speddoch – I hope to hear all that was done in Edinburgh –

Your affec^te daughter
Tilly –

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H. Fox Talbot Esq^r.
11. Great Stuart Street
Edinburgh-