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My dear Henry

We were very much disapointed [sic] at your not coming to Lanelay ¹ & still more grieved that the cause was so painful, but as you said nothing in your letter to Mary ² I hope M^r Feilding ³ is again better. Now you know better & worse are relative – as I have heard no particulars for a long time, I wish you would tell me how he is – is he able to go out airing &c & where is he at this present? I hope you will be able to enjoy yourself at Liverpool & to come here afterwards, as you intend, tho’ I cannot help you to any information about a Cottage near Bridgend – I cannot imagine what place Charlotte ⁴ meant for in this neighborhood Cottages are not palaces but literally what used to be so called. There is [sic] however comfortable houses to be had very cheap & such is the spirit of going “to & fro” that exists in these times, that I am sure you might have any house in the county for to hire, if you made the offer. I dare say the little Ela ⁵ is very entertaining now. when they are beginning to show by their observations that they have a mind they are very interesting.

Pray remember me kindly to M^rs Talbot ⁶ &

believe me your aff^e Aunt
M: L: Cole

Is Louisa Lansdowne ⁷ at Bowood ⁸ –

Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
at the ⁹
Marquis of Lansdownes ¹⁰
Richmond
Surrey