TALBOT1190

[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Lady Elisabeth - see ]

London
Aug. 2^nd 1830

My dear Henry

We cannot imagine why you expected the French to be deficient in spirit - that you are so surprised at their shewing any. - It seems true that the Duc d'Orléans ¹ has accepted the Regency. I am afraid poor Lady Robert ² & my cousins will be dreadfully frightened. The newsmen were crying all over the streets yesterday "Death of Charles X^th. ³

We are just now in all the horrors of paying bills & packing up - with oceans of things to do suddenly pouring upon one the three last days. - We are not going to Cowes at all, but straight to Laycock - Thursday as I told you before.

I am delighted the gallery ⁴ is begun & I shall have le plaisir de la surprise ⁵, as I never heard how it is be [sic] done. The fête on board the Nautilus was very pretty - it was a fine moonlight night & the Hospital & river looked beautiful - There were hardly people enough left in town though to make it very gay. - I am so sorry the hot weather is over before we get to Laycock.

I am afraid Sir R. Wilson ⁶ will lose his election - Addio ⁷

Your aff^te sister
Horatia

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts