TALBOT3313

London
28 June

My Dear Henry

Caroline ¹ gives such a delicious description of the dear old Abbey & the [fioridose?] chiome ² that surround it, & the perfumes & delights of the Alcove, that it makes me long more than ever to see it. Were there a rail road I should have been there long ago, but I dont know how it is, the Moment one sets one’s foot in England money makes to itself wings & flies away in all directions. Horatia ³ has been very ill with the Influenza & still keeps her bed – the fever was very high for two days. This will make her thinner than ever – She caught the cold which began it, at M^r Hope’s ⁴ Ball

I make out from Caroline that you will be here Thursday

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London, June Twenty eight 1836 Ilchester ⁵ –
H. F. Talbot Esq^r
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham