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Cotehele: ¹
Wednesday August 29^th 1855

My dear Henry

I have been a long time answering your last letter – but in the meantime I have heard from M^r Boger ² with a memorandum of which I enclose a copy. He thinks it is sufficient for your information & mine, & I think, (for a wonder) that I understand it, Will you please therefore do the needful at once? – as delay is always fraught with peril.

I hope you are all enjoying this comparatively fine weather in Scotland – & that the Girls are as happy as we were, once upon a time.

We came here – i.e. Ernestine, M^elle Mosché ³ & I, last Friday – were joined on Sunday by Val & L^d Carnarvon, ⁴ & 4 of the Butteels – John B his wife, & 2 youngest Sisters – (The eldest is in waiting on the P^ss Royal ⁵ at Paris – & very much charmed with all the festivities, & the town itself – never having set foot out of England before.) On Monday we gave a champagne luncheon in the great Hall – to which Lady S^t Germans ⁶ brought a large party from P^t Eliot. The day was unluckily wet & gloomy – but we had provided a fiddle – & they danced til ½ p. 8 – when the guests departed. Yesterday was beautiful – & the rest of the people we expected on Monday arrived – & tho’ only partially expected, we did very well. –

L^d M^t E. is in the “Cloud” somewhere⁷ with Charlie & his new Doctor ⁸ – but I don’t exactly know where.

I believe we go back to M^t E. ⁹ on Friday. –

Let me hear from some one soon – & tell me where you are settled.

Y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline

Love to all – & beg Amandier ¹⁰ to write.