TALBOT1705

Llanelay ¹
Cardiff

Aug / 26 1836

My dear Talbot

You probably before this have heard of the sudden and illness and death of poor Sir Christopher Cole ² on Wednesday morning about 2 o’clock by a rupture (as it is supposed) of a blood vessel near the heart – He complained soon after he went to bed of an oppression on his chest & within an hour was no more –

Lady Mary ³ has borne the shock the with admirable fortitude and resignation – cries a good deal, sleeps a little, is composed & able to talk about him at times – Mary & Jane ⁴ (who were here at the time) are totally well – Kit ⁵ arrived on Thursday & was very much upset – but all here as you well know though they feel deeply command their feelings & exert themselves to be useful & cheerful – I ought to have written to you sooner perhaps – but I wrote to Strangways ⁶ to beg him to write to the family in Dorsetshire & forgot you would not be included in the number – Pray also write to M^r Feilding ⁷ if he is not with you

Yours aff^y

Jn^o Nicholl

Cardiff August twenty seven 1836 Jn Nicholl
Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham