TALBOT113

My D^r Henry

Not that you are the least bit dear to me at present – If you missed my letter to Paris ¹ you did not miss all my messages & notes to London – & after just saying you hoped to contrive to come here Wednesday, you put it off till Thursday, & Now in the most barefaced manner put it off till Friday or Saturday – where I really sh^d not care a bit for you, as I wished so particularly you sh^d meet Mary ² &c here – Mary goes Friday, & the rest Monday, & if you had paid proper attention to my numerous notes you would have discovered that we do not move en masse to Melbury, ³ as I am not going there at all. – We wished particularly to have had you for the fair, but if you are not in time to see our Yule log lighted Christmas Eve I do not want you at all, the least bit. – And any how you will have lost so many days of our Christmas meeting, as [illegible] will soon arrive –

After you have once looked at the Garden at Abb^y, you might botanize in idea with William as well hereafter at Melbury as at Abb^y. – How could you suppose I sh^d open any bodies letter? I do not know your hand, & certainly sh^d not think of such a thing if I did – & I cant think what put it into your head – Harriot ⁴ says one to [Henry?] went on by Henry [illegible deletion] but I do not know it was yours, nor did I know you had written. – Your bed is tired of waiting for you & so am I of expecting you –

My d^r Henry
as you behave
Yours aff^ly
H Frampton

Moreton ⁵
Wednesday

H. Talbot Esq^r