TALBOT1305

My dear Henry

I am sorry that I cannot arrest your party in their wanderings but I have been, & shall be, wholly prevented for a long time to come. Sir Christ^{r 1} is absent so long in the year from his constituents, that our visiting is crammed into a small space of time in which we have much to do. the house has been full ever since Jane ² came here with her Childⁿ. They left us this morning & we have only Lord & Lady Dunraven ³ & their Chilⁿ till Wednesday when we have a fresh importation – We go to the races the middle of next month & then return our visits at that end of the country, preparatory to departing from it again. Charlotte ⁴ is tolerably well & went this morning with Jane to Merthyr Mawr. ⁵ I was not insensible to your attention in writing to us, my dear Henry but I had little to say in return, at that time. I write now principally to advise you to go & see the Museum in Park street which M^r Dillwyn ⁶ says is very well worth going to, & as M^r Miller ⁷ (a german [sic] who has the care of it, is a fr<iend> ⁸ of his, he knows if you mention his name, he will shew you particular attention. this [sic] time of year ought to be a good one for Botanizing in y^r neighborhood tho’ you will not find any thing new – my love to all in g^t haste

your aff^e Aunt
M: L: Cole

Swansea August twenty nine thirty C.C. 1825. Chris^hr Cole.
W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
P. Office Clifton
Bristol.