TALBOT3550

Richmond Hill
16 august

My Dear Henry

I do not wish to keep you at Laycock but only that Constance ¹ Should know where to send any letter for you; or that you should keep some of us au courant ² of your mouvements [sic] in Glamorganshire, as perhaps a letter would reach you quicker in that way. We are in such a dreadful state of uncertainty that I know not what to say or to think, he ³ is not so well as a week ago but yet is better than he was yesterday. As it is on real business you are going into Wales, & must wish to be settled in some house before the winter, I do not like to stop your going but only that we should know exactly each day where a letter may find you – He is convinced himself that it cannot go on, from his own feelings of excessive weakness, but the Doctors say a patient is no judge of that. He is averse to being moved back to London & indeed he hardly could be moved

Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r
Laycock abbey
Chippenham
Wilts