TALBOT346

Friday June 28.

My dear Henry

I am very much pleased to hear of your safe arrival in London – & I hope you won’t forget to inform me d’avance ¹ of your intended departure; as other wise I shall not know where to direct. You don’t mention whether you were able to call at Sloperton, ² as you proposed – I should like to know whether you saw any of them & how you found M^rs Moore ³ – I am not surprised at your disinclination to plunge at once into the great world, but I hope you won’t shut yourself up quite as much as you did the last time. – I meant to have exhorted you on this point before you went away, but it was all done in such a bustle that I could not think of this or anything else – Nor did you half tell me which way you proposed to wander in Wales after leaving London – so that it all seems to me like a dream – How chilly & stormy the weather continues! – quite unfit for the haymaking which has commenced in the fields by the Riverside. – Have you remembered my message to Caroline ⁴ about getting the little books which she recommended for Ela’s ⁵ instruction?

If you see Harriot, ⁶ do gather from her any particulars she can give about Laura ⁷ – I want so much to know what probability there is of her ultimate recovery from this tiresome complaint, & whether her health is not suffering materially from all that they are doing – I cannot help feeling very anxious about her, because the case seems to be so much more tedious than they generally are – Shall you see her if she is well enough?

These 2 letters ⁸ are the only ones that have come for you – many have come for our departed guests which I have forwarded to Lanelay ⁹ –

Y^r affectionate
Constance