TALBOT4615

Windsor Castle

Sunday Sept^r 18^th 1842

My dear Henry

We arrived in perfect safety at the Station on Friday at seven, & drove straight to Lady Pembroke’s, ¹ who of course was dressing for dinner – She was very glad to see me however, & have it all cleared up; & I saw Lord Clanwilliam ² too, who seemed very well, & not ailing as M^r Attwood ³ thought. –

We had enough to do the whole evening & next morning in unpacking & dividing Valletort’s ⁴ things from ours, in the boxes just arrived from Hamburgh We got to the Station just in time for the 2 o’clock train, & reached Windsor by 3 – The Royal Standard was already flying on the Round Tower, H.M. having arrived at ½ past 12 – Everything was ready for me in case of my arrival – but the letter you returned f^m Baroness Lehzen ⁵ was to say that I c^d stay a few days longer with you, as the D^ss of Norfolk ⁶ had been asked to continue in waiting till next Tuesday – How very unlucky I did not get it in time! I was longing so to stay at dear Laycock Abbey another day or two! & that w^d have just sufficed – At present therefore I am company; & accordingly last night, instead of waiting as usual to accompany the Q^{n 7} I went into the Drawingroom to await her arrival – We were a very small party; the only other person present being Captⁿ Meynell, one of the Grooms in waiting, but not de service ⁸ just now – He is just returned f^m the Reviews at Cologne, so we had luckily something to talk about, tho’ I had never seen him before – The Qⁿ retired very early, being dreadfully sleepy, as well as P^e Albert, ⁹ who c^d not keep his eyes open. – They returned in the Company Steamer Trident – & their suite divided among 5 or 6 others, arrived later at different hours. I believe poor L^d Liverpool ¹⁰ is not arrived yet – Please to send me by the Railroad, properly booked, all my forgots – one appears to be the little blue portfolio, w^h I do not see with me –besides I don’t know what other drawings you can mean. I believe all I possess are in that same blue Portfolio; so I sh^d be very sorry if anything was to happen to it – It ought to be covered with a bit oil skin to keep out any accidental wet, & booked – Please see that this is done properly – I cannot think what else there <illegible deletion> can be – but sh^d wish to have sent whatever may be left – Love to Constance & the Chicks ¹¹ –

Y^rs aff^ly

Caroline

Palmer ¹² thinks she saw the blue portfolio in the Hall as we were going away –
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