TALBOT1970

London
6 March 1830

My Dear Horatia

Dighton ¹ is making another model, it will be ready in a week. There is to be a square tower containing an observatory, and all sorts of strange things. I don’t mean to widen the end of the Gallery next the Dining Room so Caroline’s ² pannel will remain untouched. Asked M^r F ³ to speak to Strong ⁴ about employing labourers belonging to Lacock parish.

Bring me the Annual Peerage, ⁵ you will find it in the bookcase in my drawing room. Gather one flower from each of the Orchises, and from the Tulips, for me to see, and a spike of Hyacinthus Romanus or whatever else is come into blow. The orchis flowers will come fresh, if thrown into a phial of water. I have had Blore’s monumental remains beautifully bound in calf.

Bring all you can find of Martius’s Nova Genera ⁶ (not his Palms) They are, some on the library table, viz. 2 cahiers ⁷ which W^{m 8} was looking at; some are in a large Portfolio which lies on a chest of drawers in the room within my drawing room & some I believe are in a chest of drawers in the same room. I want to have them bound: for as they are, they are of little use.–

Yours aff^ly
Henry

P.S. I should like strawberry to be farmed out to grass at Hayward’s ⁹–

Miss Horatia Feilding
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham