TALBOT3974

Lacock
Nov^r 25^th 1839

My Dear Constance

I am very glad ¹ you accomplished your journey so well: I am surprised that you travelled at first so slowly as not to leave Newbury before ½ past 3, and then that you went so fast to Twyford as to be in time for the 6 o’clock train. The weather was beautiful here all day. The ingenious little artifice of putting the letter into the post at Kensington succeeded perfectly. My mother, Horatia, & M^{lle 2}are just gone to Bowood, ³ I hear there is nobody there but D^r & M^rs Fowler. ⁴

I think it was very lucky that I thought of ordering the horses to meet you halfway to Reading otherwise you would have been too late for the train – We arrived at M^r Joy’s very punctually to the time he described as his dinner hour but he was not at all punctual & we had to wait a long time for dinner. The company consisted of Co^l & M^rs Wildman, ⁵ Miss Elton Miss Ella Houlton, D^r Greenup –We returned home at ½ past 11, having the Benefit of the moonlight. Pray buy for me some weights for weighing letters: they are sold by Hooper in Pall Mall. And buy me Tytler’s England under the Reign of Edward 6^th and Mary just Published in 2 vols ⁶– I think it will amuse you to read it while you are in Town – I advise you to pay a visit to the Adelaide Gallery ⁷ in Lowther’s Arcade, and see M. Daguerre’s pictures ⁸ there, which are executed by himself. There is no extra charge – Let Nicole ⁹ know of them in case he should like to spend his shilling in viewing them, & tell him they are not the same as what he was when in Town with me last month. The weather is grown warm today & very dark

Your Aff^te
Henry

M^rs Talbot
44 Queen Ann S^t
London
Nov^r 25. 1839