TALBOT2131

Brighton
28^th January 1831 ¹

My dear Henry

Dogmersfield is full therefore we shall not go there, but by London instead, & reach Laycock either Thursday, Friday or Wednesday perhaps tho’ that is not likely, as we leave this Tuesday. Our dinner yesterday & Soirée went off d’une manière éclatante ² they said Brighton w^d go into mourning on our departure.

What a day you had yesterday for y^r journey! We thought you would be blown into the Sea, & must have wished yourself peaceably back in Brunswick Terrace, sitting between M^rs Norton ³ & Charles Fox at dinner. We are now in all the agonies of dressing for the Pavilion, dining as usual too late

So good Night

Pray take care to make them warm the house well for us

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Brighton January twenty Eight 1831
Henry Fox Talbot Eqr
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts