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My dear Henry

I send you the Votes &c of yesterday & today hoping you will tell me tomorrow what you wish about them. My Visitor seems very contented & I have lighted the fire to make her & myself comfortable. I do not know what kind of day you may g have got at Lacock, but here we find it rather cold. We mean to try the effects of a walk presently if it does not begin to rain. - I called upon Miss Feilding ¹ yesterday, but was not admitted because Lady Robert Fitzgerald ² was with her. - She said however that she would be happy to see me today, so I mean to go again. - Laura ³ & I have been studying the Times ⁴ of today, but luckily did not discover a great deal that we considered worthy of our attention. - The Flowers that came in the Basket from Lacock yesterday are charming. - There is a noble specimen of Solomon's seal a very fine Lupin & pretty sprigs of red-thorn - besides many other pretty things, there are lilacs & lilies of the valley which perfume the air most deliciously - and I am so charmed with the Tradescantia Virginica that I think of trying to paint it, though the colors are almost too brilliant to imitate. -

We are invited by Lady Grey ⁵ to a full dress party on the 28^th What induces her to take notice of us? M^rs Watts Russell ⁶ gives a Soirée dansante next Monday to which I think of taking Laura! Am I not arrived at great honor to have a Sister to chaperone? I hope you feel already benefited by the country air, & pray dont forget to send me an account of the Seeds &c &c. - Did you get my letter yesterday stating my perplexities about Lady Ilchester? ⁷

I do not mean to send you any letters that look like bills or printed papers unless you desire it. - One of this description came for M^r Feilding ⁸ this morning. -

I hope you do not want Edward. ⁹ - Do you remember directing a letter for Price ¹⁰ the evening before you went away? - It is strange that I never could find it afterwards. - Did you happen to carry it off by mistake?

Y^r affec^te
Constance. -

Wednesday. -