TALBOT2394

M^t Edgcumbe ¹
from the Pavillon in the
English Garden
Thursday 2^nd August

My dear Henry

I received your letter yesterday & the key & telescope some time ago – I franked three letters for you to Cowes ² – I hope you got them all safe –

I have not heard from Uncle Harry ³ any thing positive about coming here, but Sir Charles ⁴ who is at Saltram for the Races, is to pay us a visit tomorrow – We were likewise priés to the Race party but declined on account of the Cholera. ⁵ I should be delighted if Mama ⁶ could come here, but on that account it is no use pressing her at present, though I say nothing about it to her, for fear of making her nervous. Of course if it was to increase we should go away ourselves. Saturday we go to Port Eliot where I am to stay a day or two, while L^d V. ⁷ goes on to the Assizes at Bodmin – he is very well indeed now & can write with that hand. – Explain to me in your next what the Sophospermum is, as I have forgot what it is like – I am laying out my new garden near the arbour above the house. – Is the enclosed rare? I found it on the turf –

Addio caro fratellino, ⁸ write to me soon –

Y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline

Give my love to Aunt Harriot & my cousins ⁹ –
We have got a tame fawn, caught when only a fortnight old – the prettiest little creature you can imagine.

[envelope:]
W. Henry Fox Talbot Esq^re
Post Office
Cowes
Isle of Wight