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Laycock abbey

2^d October

My Dear Henry

Your Letter from Alton Towers ¹ gave me the greatest pleasure, for in the first place it was very amusing & in the next you have written to me so seldom lately that la rareté du fait ² alone would have made it welcome – However I should not have stood upon ceremony nor have waited for Letters before I wrote to you, had I had anything to communicate except what Caroline & Horatia ³ described of our gaieties, besides my time being fully taken up, as the House was “without o’erflowing full”, for a great number of of weeks. all are now departed except Count Zamoisky ⁴ who goes tomorrow. Yesterday I went with M^r Luttrell ⁵ & Amandier ⁶ to see M^r Beckford’s House ⁷ at Bath & his Tower on Lansdowne, ⁸ the pictures in both are beautiful, & the fitting up much too good & too well chosen for such a locale. Caroline seems now to wish her confinement to take place here & has written to Lord V– ⁹ in Cornwall to propose it, it is now under his decision – She must like it to be born at the Abbey very most particularly.

I should like to be better acquainted with our accomplished cousins, which I probably shall be if they are to be in London this year, though it will be impossible to get on much in that Emporium of elaborate idleness. Caroline is very well & is sitting drawing on the Terrace, a view of the South front for a souvenir for Zamoisky to take with him. Everybody likes t<his> ¹⁰ place that have <sic> ever been to stay <here?> there must be something attaching in it. What lovely weather for your tour – I hope you have received 3 letters I have directed on to you

God bless you
Pray write again soon

Bangor was the fatal direction I remember

Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r
Post Office
Bangor
North Wales
Manchester ¹¹