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My dear Henry

I have delayed writing to thank you for the Tree MSS,¹ so carefully preserved, & so thoughtfully returned, as I have been expecting to hear from you every day respecting My Memoirs,² & I have also been much occupied & bothered, which also means fatigued, as my maid is leaving me, & I have had to write for characters &c of the new one to come – always tiresome, & waste of precious time which may be more pleasantly spent.

I am much disappointed at M^r Macmillan’s long delay, as his advertisement for his July number, (the contents of which sound stupid enough,) has been out since the 28^th. I know enough of Editors, having contributed 2 years ago to a Juvenile Magazine, & sent articles to the Cornhill³ & others which were only not received, as they did not accept them from “unknown writers,” to know that it is not customary to delay saying yes, or no, longer than a week, as naturally the aspirant wishes to try elsewhere. I hope therefore that if you have not heard from M^r Macmillan,⁴ you will write again, & request that it may be returned, as he does not appear to wish to accept it – if he had intended so to do, he would have written fast enough, & I wish to try other opportunities during the season. It is a great anxiety to me – & remember no curtailment, excepting the one line about the Prince’s apartment;⁵ if that should be any difficulty.

In haste y^r aff cousin
Louisa C. Frampton

I have omitted to say that M^r Chambers having asked for papers on trees through Sir R. Christison,⁶ returned those I sent because “what he had sufficed & he did not want more.” Then why ask?

Lulworth Villa
S^t Mary Church
Torquay –
July 2^nd

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Henry Fox Talbot Esqre
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts