TALBOT4194

Monday

Dear Henry

I have sent for last Saturday’s Literary Gazette. ¹ I enclose a bit I cut out because it is on a subject interesting to you. If I was Lady of the Manor as Constance ² is, I should certainly speak to M^r J. Paley ³ to discontinue practices that are a nuisance, & unusual.

An express arrived from Wilton to say that Lady Shelburne ⁴ was out of danger. D^r Locock ⁵ was obliged to leave her but told Lady Pembroke ⁶ that the Country apothecary seemed to him quite equal to the exigences of the case & so it proved. He is a bold practitioner, & D^r Locock says a timid one is the worst hands one can fall into. She was in the greatest danger for 4 days. All this agitation has thrown back my Sister, ⁷ who was before only slowly recovering. This muggy weather disagrees with me, one cannot get any exercise The streets are so muddy & the Parks worse. The post comes in very late on account of the roads, on Saturday it was near 5 o’clock before the Salisbury post arrived at Lansdowne House. ⁸ Lady S[illegible] has behaved in the most inconsequente ⁹ manner, settling plans in the warmest & strangest manner & then next post all dans l’air ¹⁰ – very thoughtless she must be