TALBOT1844

Lacock

16^th August 1829

My Dear Mother,

I spent a day at Lyndhurst; to walk the New Forest which I admired very much. I went a little out of my way between Salisbury and Devizes, to see Stonehenge, but the illusion was wholly destroyed by my finding assembled there, five carriages & thirty people, two tents pitched & a splendid cold collation – I dined & slept at Bowood that day, where I met L^d Carnarvon & Porchester. ¹

The Garden here seems in a very thriving state. Most of the evergreens you planted are doing well. The 2 large Cypresses at the angles of the terrace are dead, but the 2 large box trees near them are recovered & will prosper. The large arbutus planted this spring near your garden is very well, there is a beautiful circular bed of Potentilla formosa there. It is a red flower from Nepaul<sic>. The terrace is transformed into a neat green lawn, it alters the appearance of the place entirely. I believe I shall stay here till Wednesday morning – I go to Penrice ² about the 23^d for a week

Your aff^te Son

Henry Talbot

Lady Elisabeth Feilding
31 Sackville S^t
London