TALBOT2245

Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your kind invitation ¹ to Lacock Abbey which I regret much that we cannot accept – Next week we are going into Gloucestershire to visit Sir W. [Greive?] & afterwards I am full of engagements untill we depart for our Winter quarters in Dorset. In truth I shall hasten my departure in consequence of the very disturbed state of Sherborne & its neighborhood. You have doubtless seen the account of the outrages at Sherborne Castle, ² by private reports are even [illegible deletion] worse than the public ones in the Newspapers – I shall be much gratified at some future & I trust happier moment to avail myself of your hospitality

Believe me my d^r Sir v^y truly & faithfully y^rs
RGordon

Keble House [illegible]
Oct 23. 1831

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Cirencester October twenty three 1831
H. F. Talbot Es^r
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham