TALBOT3570

Lacock Abbey
Sept^r 3^d

Dearest Henry

I have received your mournful tidings ¹ with mingled feelings of sorrow & thankfulness that it is all over – Too well do I know what it is to mourn for a beloved object! – & while I deeply sympathise in their heavy affliction I pray to the Almighty to strengthen & support them under it –

Of course I shall not write to any of them at present. – but pray give them my affectionate love, whenever you think they will like to be reminded of me – I know that you will now be overwhelmed with business dear Henry & therefore I cannot expect that you will have much time to write to me – still for the present I shall feel very envious about you all – so hope you will not quite keep silence unless all goes on tolerably well – Your accounts of your dear Mother ² have hitherto been almost better than I had ventured to expect – How severe will be your own trials dear Henry & in having to support & console them & at the same time get through all the business which will devolve upon you –

I wrote to you yesterday ³ thinking you might begin to be anxious about us if you heard nothing –

It is so exceedingly chilly here that I was obliged to have recourse to a fire this morning to warm myself – & I found it had the happy effect of enlivening cheering as well as cheering warming me – Rose ⁴ & I have been very near quarrelling on two or three occasions – I scarcely know whether to attribute it to mental anxiety, chilliness of the weather, or what would be strangest of all, a fancy on her part to become tired of me – However I hope we shall agree better again soon – especially as she is quite well –

Your affectionate
Constance

I have forwarded a letter come for you this morning.

H.F. Talbot Esq^r
31. Sackville Street
London