TALBOT4220

Saturday

Dear Henry

Say by return of post which servant you bring because if N –¹ he must not be lodged with the Valetaille or rather not with the Carraille² but have a chamber of honour at the top of the house now full of Caroline’s goods, but which may be removed if we only know it Monday morning. M^r Babbage ³ came yesterday & made choice of eight out of the Eleven – I will tell you his objections to the other 3. I left them at his house & he seemed very much pleased to have them. I think I shall go there to night to overhear what people say. It is very unlucky Caroline being in waiting just now, for Lord M^t E ⁴ is certainly worse & it takes off all pleasure & lightness of heart she would have at the Palace The Q. ⁵ has very good naturedly excused her attendance several times & taken up with the Maids of Honour. She is so excessively fond of P. Albert that she really feels for any [illegible] of that sort. Amandier ⁶ recovers so slowly that she has deferred her journey a few days longer, & Horatia ⁷ remains so weak she has not been able to go out anywhere at night, nothing but Country air will revive her.

Tell Constance ⁸ the Screen is promised positively for next Tuesday, I hope her Sisters⁹ will not have left Town.

Aff^ly Y^r
EF