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M^t Edgcumbe ¹
Tuesday June 16^th 1840 –

My dear Henry

I ought to have told you before that your Arabian nights and Photographs ² arrived quite safe – only I was waiting till I had time to write plus au long than I have tonight – The latter are beautiful – I have not yet selected those for M^r Condy, ³ as I want to give him good specimens, & yet wish to keep the best for myself. – Mamma ⁴ seems to think we ought to be coming to town – so we are soon I believe – but not for the drawingroom & Ball on the 22^nd that is impossible – it is really very awkward – being appointed suddenly & expected to come to town when one has no pied à terre, ⁵ at so short a notice, as if one had known all all about it beforehand –

Addio – Y^r Aff^te
Caroline