TALBOT4086

7^th June

My Dear Henry

What torpor is come over you & Constance ¹ I have not heard a syllable of either since you left town this day fortnight!

You must send me some more photogenies, ² this very Morning W. Rogers came & robbed me of my particular favourite the East terrace ³ at Laycock Abbey. Il faut avouer ⁴ it could not be more worthily bestowed. I am more than ever convinced that neither Hermes nor Genesis ⁵ have ever been properly advertised, M^r Galy Knight ⁶ & many other literary people have told me they never saw either. I myself read all advertisements of books, & I never saw Hermes but once & the other never. Horatia ⁷ is in great force She was last Night at the Duchess of Glocester’s ⁸ sic] Ball to meet the Queen. ⁹ L^y Charlotte Talbot’s ¹⁰ accouchement ¹¹ took place this Morn^g She has got a very small boy, but it is all doing well. Tunbridge has not answered for Theresa, ¹² it is supposed the Waters were too heating She broke a blood vessel two days ago, My Brother ¹³ went down to her & today there are better accounts

aff^ly y^rs
EF

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