TALBOT1643

Dear Henry

Thank you for your note & extract of Kits ¹ letter, I wish much it brought intelligence down to a later period, I have to day a letter from George Strangways ² at Cape, saying he had seen a M^r Williams who was at Constantinople sadly is left & John ³ was expected there in his way home, but this is about the same date also, & nothing decisive, I incline to think Alexandria will be his route, we know it was his intention to come that way. I did not send the whole of your extract to Lady I. ⁴ as she is so very nervously anxious, and you mentioned Kits having had escapes, which I thought might put additional dangers into her contemplation. I am very sorry I could not get to Lacock, I should like much to pay you a visit there, I was too unwell to leave home at the time I proposed it. Remark to all, it is much better,

Believe me, Affe^ct Y^rs,
Ilchester

Sherborne, Jan: T two, 1828 Ilchester
H. Talbot Esq^r
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham