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Lacock Abbey
Monday. May 11. –

My dear Henry

I must write just to thank you for your doubly welcome letter – your own safe arrival & Lady Elisabeth’s ¹ convalescence were both so pleasant to hear of! – Matilda ² is quite well again now & merry, though she looks much thinner & more delicate than she did before this attack. – I do not think it was altogether her teeth, but perhaps something of the same kind as the others had. – They are very well – & at this moment solacing themselves for the disappointment of a wet day by drinking tea with Price ³ in the housekeeper’s room You must tell me how long you mean to stay in London that I may send you in time a list of things which you want yourself for photography. –We have had showery days ever since you went & today a more steady rain though exceedingly minute, scarcely deserving the name of anything but a fog – Still it seems to have refreshed the vegetable creation, & we may hope for more from the dull appearance of the sky. – How tiresome is blank Monday, today, when our curiosity is so much excited about Courvoisier!!

I suppose you know by this time a great many important facts. – Marian & Laura ⁴ are pretty well & rather sorry to feel that their time here is drawing to a close – but they have been here long enough for their good I think. –

Your aff^te
Constance

I hope you will write again soon – best love to Horatia ⁵ –