TALBOT2039

Penrice ¹
Aug^t 18 1830

My dear Henry

I am just on the point of starting for Cowes, via Lands End, I am glad to think I shall see you there, but I shall have to return to the Cardiff assizes being foreman of the grand jury one of the pleasing duties now entailed on me – then I shall go back to Cowes for a few days more & return to the Cardiff Races which are on the 17^th Sept^r – Nothing can be more satisfactory than the result of the English elections, we are not however so fortunate in Wales, Carmarthenshire & Pembrokeshire & Brecknockshire & Monmouthshire return all government men. Glamorganshire is preeminent in returning two whig members. I marvel how Lord Lansdowne ² has managed about Calne, I see too M^r Gye ³ has left Chippenham ⁴

I must come and pay you a visit going or coming if you are still there. I long to see the final determination regarding the gallery at Laycock. My building goes on tolerably fast, but the foundations being twelve feet thick causes a vast consumption of materials.

Ever truly Yours
C R M Talbot

Swansea August eighteen 1830 C R M Talbot
W H F. Talbot Esq^r
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts