TALBOT2019

London
July 12^th 1830

Enrico carissimo ¹

Our party succeeded beyond our expectations - & as the Morn^g Post would say, closed the entertainments of the Season with éclat. ² It was quite a party after Aunt Harriet's ³ own heart - about 12 or 15 ladies & heaps of men - Miss Elphinstone was in high good humour & sung [sic] till 2 o'clock. M^r Moore, Lord de Tabley, Lord Charlemont & Capt. Edwardes ⁴ dined, & were very agreeable. The Duchessina had a musical party to which she asked us, but it was too late after our people were gone. Lady Grey ⁵ was to have had a soirée but put it off for fear of being crushed by ours. Friday we went to M^rs Cunliffe's & Lady Grey's. ⁶ Saturday we spent at Richmond - we went with Aunt Louisa ⁷ to see Ham House,⁸ which Lady Dysart ⁹ had deputed Miss Tollemache to shew us. She was extremely civil I suppose out of gratitude for the ball, & I was delighted with the old house & pictures.

Mama ¹⁰ has sent you to day's Morning post, as the Times ¹¹ is not to be found high nor low She says she will write to you to-morrow. Caroline t'embrasse et moi aussi - j'éspère que tu ne t'ennuies pas tout seul - Addio ¹²

Your aff^te sister
Horatia

There is a ball! to night at Lady C. Barham's ¹³ a concert at M^rs Bradshaw's- href="#tan02019">^<14> & a soirée at Lady Tankerville's! ¹⁴

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham