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My dear Henry

Having an opportunity of sending a packet to London I have availed myself of it by writing for my Sisters ¹ various letters on business touching ladies maids &c, & we thought it best to enclose them all to you to put into the twopenny post for us. There is one for Mina Mellish ² & one for Hallam. ³ – Besides those there is a letter for Miss Ford at Bath which I hope you will get some kind friend to frank for me – & if necessary, you may keep it a day or two. But it must not go unfranked besides it is a letter on business – of private concernments & no ways amusing to Miss Ford.

The fourth packet is for Emma Lady E’s ⁴ maid –

I have heard twice from Lacock & have been writing to Lady Elisabeth in return. –

Many thanks for your letter received this morning & for the permission to stay another week – This lengthened stay is much more agreeable both to myself & to my Sisters – Harriot Mundy ⁵ has been uneasy about her little boy ⁶ – he kept his bed for some [illegible deletion] days & was so weak he could only sit up when propped with pillows. – Tonight is too cloudy for astronomical observation – What a pity – The picture is not yet decided about for I am waiting to see M^r Forster’s paintings. ⁷

Excuse a scrawl dear Henry & believe me ever your affc^t
Constance

April 25.