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Friday Oct.

My dear Henry

I hope you won’t forget to bring with you the Sept. & Oct. Numbers of Nickleby ¹ – Horatia ²& I are anxious for the dénouement of the Story which we expect to find therein. – I suppose you are very busy! Since you do not find time to write. –

Do you not feel proud of your brilliant success, & flattered by the communication which Lady Elisabeth ³ makes to you today! – Our children ⁴ are quite well & wishing for you to come back. Rosamond made believe this morning, to go to London in search of you, & she brought word back that ‘Papa was coming directly’!

Ela continues to like her spelling board, which gives me great hopes of her learning to read some day or other. –

Matilda is resuming her fidgettyness & wakefulness, but appears quite well, so I conclude there is, after all, something restless in her Nature. – I am quite grieved to hear that Bennett’s ⁵ distressed Sister ⁶has again troubled her about the Sovereign, & written an urgent letter for it to be sent by today’s post (if found). Of course poor Bennett is not likely to find it ; but she is so determined to assist her Sister that she wants to send give another Sovereign instead of the lost one – I have advised her not to trust it to the post, & I wish you therefore to send Nichole ⁷ as soon as you can, to 42 Dean Street Soho with directions to give a Sovereign in Bennett’s name to M^rs Sheilds. Nichole will be repaid by Bennett on his return to Lacock –

Y^r. Aff^te
Constance

H. F Talbot Esq^r.