TALBOT2280

Penllergare ¹
Aug^st 28

My dear Henry

Your little Cistus with white flowers is now loaded with ripe seeds – They are quite ornamental. We were very sorry to part with Ela ² and hope she (and Rosamond ³) may come again next summer.

Elinor ⁴ quite enjoyed taking her about in various directions –

I wish our Gardener could see the way in which you treat the Bomarea and the hardy Clerodendron We have increased the Hedychium which you gave us two years ago but he has kept it in pots – it flowered last year – but not this Season –

I have the Mentha Requieni from Kew & it runs about over the ground & is quite at home – I did not know before that it comes from Corsica – it is a great addition to the pleasure of cultivating flowers, to know where they come from –

M^r Llewelyn ⁵ looked out some of his best negatives to shew Ela but she could not appreciate them I am sure, so well, as if she had been your printer in by gone days – I exhorted her to get you to look over your old stores – We shewed her quite a collection of photographs from the earliest date – and if your negatives are still in existence some prints from them would be valuable invaluable I mean ⁶ –

Do pray look them out – We should so very much like to look them over – I am sure that we should appreciate them more than any body else can do. We possess those photographs you sent to Lanelay ⁷ – little things – Sir Charles Lemon & L^y Dunstanville ⁸ at Carclew ⁹ – bits of Laycock – &^ca besides & before the “Pencil of Nature” ¹⁰ –

yours affe^tly
Emma Llewelyn