TALBOT2365

46 Albemarle S^{t 1}
June 18^th

My dear Henry

How does your canvas prosper? I like your address very much & hope that success may crown your efforts – I think of nothing now but elections, for I suppose you have already heard that L^d V. ² means to stand for the Eastern division of Cornwall He is much better & we mean to leave London Saturday – we shall travel very leisurely & probably stop a day or two at Southampton, or Lyndhurst, or any place we fancy on the road – The country must be charming now – pray find a leisure moment to visit my garden, & tell me most particularly if the standard rosa odorata & the climbing Rosa banksia are in flower – Fitzsimmons ³ sent me a most lovely specimen of the Boursault rose which grows on my Robinson Crusoe ⁴ arbour – I hope you approve of our plan de route, ⁵ through the New forest [sic] , & perhaps we may take a trip to Cowes & see Aunt Harriot ⁶ – I wish very much you may be able to come & see us at M^t Edgcumbe ⁷

Addio caro fratello ⁸ – is not this a beautiful Ixia? I got a large nosegay of them at Covent Garden for sixpence –

Y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline