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My Dear Henry

You thought yourself very cunning to do up Horatia’s ¹ letter in mine, but the Post office was more so, and discovered the ruse, so you might as well have given us a comfortable Letter a piece. I shall write to you when more at leisure soon, being at present immersed in a Water Party of Lady Mansfield’s. ² M^r F. was reluctantly persuaded by Theresa ³ to give the Ball, & has repented hearing of it ever since, Tho’ it was brilliant & successful & redolent with Beauty & Fashion They talk of a dissolution of Parliament if the Tories come in, that must be. I suppose You see Galignani ⁴ at the Reading rooms

M.^de Madame Talbot ⁵
Dame Anglaise

Poste Restante
Berne
Lucerne
en Suisse
Switzerland