TALBOT3540

Monday

My Dear Henry

He is much clearer to day, & says if you will lock up the Green Box ¹ yourself in the Tower that will be best. His progress is extremely slow, but still it is a progress, imperceptible daily, but visible at the end of a Week. He is a Skeleton, which makes all attitudes very painful, as there is not flesh enough to shield the bones in laying [sic] down – How little one thinks of all these miseries in health, when things seem to go on of themselves. If he is able to go to Richmond next Week it will be in one of those machines they call Invalide Carriages, into which the patient is conveyed on his bed just as he lays [sic] & M^r Cutler ² would sit by him in case of his fainting. In 50 minutes he could be landed, with 4 horses, at Lord Lansdowne’s ³ Door. Louisa Fitzmaurice ⁴ went down this morning to Bowood ⁵ Lord & L^y L. ⁶ follow next Thursday – We shall expect you Wednesday

Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r
Laycock abbey
Chippenham
Wilts