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Coedriglan ¹
March 28^th

My dear Henry

Your photogenics are so beautiful that I cannot defer telling you how much we have been delighted with them – M^r. Dillwyn ² who happened to be with us when they came was quite surprized at the progress you have made³ and particularly pleased with the busts ⁴ – Margam ⁵ is very pretty indeed but your views of Lacock are so much brighter that I wish you would come down again now we have such new sunny weather and make some more from it – I suppose you can repeat anything you have taken in the Camera as often as you please. I am afraid these are not fixed? Can you tell me if so how to fix them?

Kit ⁶ is to be in town for a few days & Lady Charlotte ⁷ is come to stay with us during his Absence she is looking very well. Mama ⁸ is now at Penrice ⁹ with Susan & Fanny ¹⁰ showing them the house and Mary ¹¹ is still Nursing Isabelle ¹² at Swansea – She is going on well & has a new boy born a little more than a week ago – We are to go to Lanelay ¹³ whenever Mama comes home but I do not expect she will be in a hurry to leave Penrice at this time of year which she always used to enjoy there the frost has ruined over garden but I dare say has not been severe there as it was not much felt at Swansea according to Mary’s account –

Your affectionate cousin
Charlotte Traherne

Give my love to M^rs Talbot ¹⁴ I hope the children ¹⁵ are well.

H Fox Talbot Esq^er
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts

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