TALBOT2368

Coedriglan
Sept 11^th 76

My dear Henry

I think I ought to have the Letters back which I lent you so long ago – I am sorry not to have had the opportunity of looking them over with you but it is not convenient to me to leave home now & I have a wish to see them again. I have others I could lend you but perhaps you may make out some time to come & see me and it would be pleasant to read them together Miss S^t George & a niece & two nephews of hers are now staying with me. We have just been reading some of Aunt Susan’s¹ letters together & enjoying them much –

I have not heard very lately of my brother & Emily ² who are in the steam Yatch [sic] Lynx in the Channel somewhere I suppose – Olive³ is at Dover at the Lord Warden Hotel ⁴ – she seems much the same – still suffering from want of real sleep and nervous pains in the feet & legs – We were glad she was persuaded to leave London for a time & it may do her good – the Llewelyns are now at Malvern ⁵ where M^r Llewelyns sister, M^rs Moggridge & her husband & daughter are staying – Have you been in Scotland or had Matilda ⁶ & her family to stay with you? I dont know if you have heard that Edward Nicholl ⁷ has just got the Chaplaincy of the Lunatic Asylum at Maidstone instead of Macclesfield where he has been I think four years and of which he was very tired – I have got two of my nephews at S^t Hilary now – Rice & Spencer Nicholl – Rice’s children enjoy the place much – his wife is of a Glamorganshire family & a very pleasing woman – it is a nice drive for me to go & see them – I should like to shew you my walks in the wood here they are so pretty. My garden is gone to nothing since I went away but the place is all ready to be made up again if I had the time but I have many repairs to do first – Give my love to your folk

& believe me Yours aff^ly
Charlotte L Traherne

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W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^re.
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Lacock Abbey
Chippenham.