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7 Clifford S^t
W.

Friday August 25^th 1871

My dear Henry

I am not quite sure of being able to leave London tomorrow, tho’ I hope I may do so – but my teeth are so very uncomfortable, that it is very likely I shall have to stay till Monday. If I cannot come I will telegraph.

Charlie ¹ has been making a pleasant trip in a friend’s Yacht, to the Channel Islands – then to Plymouth where he took his host to see M^t E. ² & Cotehele ³ – then to the Scilly Isles, where King Smith ⁴ entertained them for 2 days – & lastly back to Dartmouth, whence he writes – in 22 hours from Scilly – very quick I think.

How shamefully & absurdly the Irish are behaving! hissing the toast to the Queen! ⁵

I wonder why Monsieur Richard, alias M^r Wallace, ⁶ is to be made a Baronet – simply because he has become a rich man? My love to all –

Y^r aff^te Sister

Caroline