TALBOT4196

Laycock abbey
21^st February

My Dear Henry

I send you the enclosed as it may have escaped your observation & perhaps is worth enquiring into, as it may bear on your patent in France & perhaps suggest a remedy. Emma ¹ is not well enough to travel tomorrow, & I am not quite well myself, so that I must defer my intended conversation, but not for long as I conclude you will be here soon. Perhaps you will travel down with Caroline. ²

To day the air is as clear & the sky as bright & blue as at Nice, if this place could disagree with you in such weather as this it would be a proof that dislike operated on your nerves, & not anything relaxing in the atmosphere.

Horatia ³ has just been saying this weather reminds her of a winter’s day in Italy.

Aff^y y^rs
E F

I go constantly to Caroline Copse to viser ⁴ the new improvement which will be finished tomorrow. The Children were all disporting there to day in the Sun, it is such a sheltered walk

The Trains leave town at a more convenient hour on Sundays than they do at Chippenham. ⁵ I perceive D^r Arnold ⁶ approves of travelling on Sunday