TALBOT1919

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

Laycock Abbey
Wednesday 23^d Dec^r

My Dear Henry

Tomorrow we go to Bowood ¹ – spend Xmas day there & return here Saturday, so that I am afraid we shall not be able to send the carriage to meet you at Chippenham or Melksham ² which ever it is – It is very odd & provoking about Job. I cannot imagine what is come to him. We have heard nothing here since he went. There is nobody at Bowood but Mary Fox & her brother Henry ³ nor is there likely to be I believe on account of the dangerous illness of Lord L’s aunt, Miss Vernon ⁴ – & Kerry ⁵ is very unwell, they say is it indigestion, which seems to be the complaint of all the world – I long to see M^r Hopper’s ⁶ ideas, I suppose you will bring some of them with you.

aff^y y^rs
ETF

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
31 Sackville Street
London