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My dear Henry

I was very much obliged to you for your little letter & delighted with the good intelligence it contained – I hope your Mother ¹ will find everything going on in the same prosperous manner. I shall like very much to hear of Horatia’s ² improved health & hope you will give me a line sometimes but I must acknowledge the more lines you put in the letter the better I shall like it, as I think, in general, the same subjects interest us – Jane ³ & 4 of her Children are here & Emma ⁴ & her baby so the house is full & the socialette ⁵ in employment & the sands & salt water in requisition – in a fortnight We are going to the Eisteddfod at Cardiff & then talk of going to see the Galatea ⁶ race with the Water Witch at Cowes but I think I shall not be able to go, as Isabella ⁷ is to be confined in another Month & has been very ill, so that I shall not like to be very far away from her. All the party here are well & join in love to you & a wish that you would bring M^rs Talbot ⁸ into South Wales sometime or another to botanise tho’ at present I cannot say when I shall be quietly at Penrice ⁹ expecting to be sent for to Isabella as I am at present

your aff Aunt
Mary L. Cole

Henry Talbot Esq^r
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
31 Sackville Street ¹⁰
Piccadilly
London