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[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Lady Elisabeth: ]

Laycock abbey
14^th August

Carissimo Enrico ¹

I was very glad to hear you had arrived safe at Calais – it was very good of you to write as you had promised. I hope you have better weather than we. – it has not ceased raining hardly since we have been here, however our garden is very pretty – the Tyger Lily is beautiful, it flowers almost every day – I have got 4 Lobelia fulgens in bloom, and 2 Dahlias – & several yellow Coreopsis – There are several pretty things in your botanical garden – Chelone barbata – Coreopsis grandiflora – a pink flower that Caroline found at Pæstum, something like endive. Campanula allarifolia – Epilobium angustifolium – The field of Dahlias near our garden is in great beauty – there are a great many double ones – You cannot think how nice our two rooms are: mine has a very pretty pink paper – & C’s a green & white one. I am going to-day to Bowood ² for 2 days to cure my cough.

Addio fratello carissimo ³, pray write me a long letter, with an account of all you are doing, & I will tell you in return all about Blandford Races ⁴, if we go.

Your very aff^te sister
Horatia

Mons^r
Monsieur Henri Fox Talbot
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