TALBOT2425

Laycock Abbey
Thursday
Sept^r 27^th

My dear Henry

I hope this letter will have a better fate than that we sent you at Bangor 3 years ago. How came you not to mention Lord Byron's ¹ tomb at Newstead - that is what I should have thought the most interesting part. The Galways ² left us yesterday to go to Melbury ³ - & Harriet & M^r Mundy ⁴ are just gone to Bowood ⁵ - They had been here a week, Amandier ⁶ arrived Sunday in tolerably good health notwithstanding the cholera - M^r Luttrell ⁷ came yesterday - Poor old Niemcewicz ⁸ went away Monday - he said he should never forget the happy days he had passed here. Count Zamoyski ⁹ is still here he shewed that Polish fable to M^r Moore, ¹⁰ who said he would take the idea & make something of it. Caroline ¹¹ is very well all things considered - Lord V. ¹² left her here Sunday & went back to canvass in Cornwall. We had some beautiful tableaux Saturday last. Lord V. & Gale ¹³ together constructed a sort of little stage at the end of the South gallery, out of old materials they poked out in the dormitory, & which was a great improvement on the narrow doorway as it admitted of so many more figures. Lord & L^y Lansdowne, Louisa, M^r Rogers ¹⁴ & M^r Luttrell came from Bowood to see them & were highly delighted. What are you going to do in Wales? write me all about it. - I think something is going to happen in Europe - the aspect of affairs is warlike - I wish we [text missing] ¹⁵ pelt those Russians a little -

Addio

yr. aff^te sister
Horatia

Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r
Post Office
Bangor
North Wales