TALBOT3763

Lacock Abbey
December Six^th

My dear Henry

I broke my long silence to you yesterday, & hope you received my letter. –

I am very much obliged by the intimation of Lady Elisabeth’s ¹ return & hope Saturday will be a fine day for her journey. – Your Cousin Miss Talbot has sent you 2 packets of seeds this morning which she says were forgotten before – they are the White Betony & Lavatera ambigua. –

The enclosed came per post today – Miss Talbots letter was franked by her brother – by which it appea[rs]² that she & Lady Mary ³ are staying at Margam ⁴ – but in a fortnight she says they are going to Pentlegare [sic] to M^rs Llewellyn ⁵ – Lady Mary has not been quite strong – & the weather appears to have been as bad with them as elsewhere. – I have just made acquaintance with an old man who recollects the making of the Terra cotta images in the hall. – He recollects some foreigners coming to Lacock & baking the figures in the orchard – it must be about 80 years ago – for the old man is 86. –

H. F. Talbot Esq^re
Sackville Street