TALBOT4121

Laycock abbey

7^th august

My Dear Henry

How you fly about! great was my surprize to see a letter dated London instead of Keswick ¹ or ambleside. I intend to be here stationary for some time, except going for a few days to Bowood, ² but if you will let me know what day you come, I will make a point of coming down here to meet you. I wish very much you would come & let me have a glimpse of you, but how will you continue to be in time for the Meeting at Newcastle ³ which is to begin I understood next Saturday What was the housemaid about? When you arrived I mean. as she is new I wish very much she should be occasionally surprized, that I may know if she is to be depended on, which I fear not as you seem to imply there was no room ready for you in Sackville Street, ⁴ now she was particularly ordered to keep one bed room in readiness, & I told her myself you might happen to come at any time

aff^ly y^rs

EF

Il paroît que Constance a pris le goût de voyages ⁵ perhaps it is to try if the Children could go to Naples.

Does W^{m 6} mean that he sent you a large Letter by the post since we came down? I have not seen it – Upon inquiring I find M^rs Price ⁷ has your Letters but did not know where to direct, as now as you are coming she had better keep them for you. I am just going to look at the Ribes Sanguineum ⁸