TALBOT4254

Windsor Castle
May 6^th 1841

My dear Henry

Lord Erroll ¹ is going to give me an order to let you into the private grounds and gardens with your instruments, any day you like when the Court is absent – As I have been here with him nearly a week, I should have had it sooner had I known he was the proper person to apply to – But as I was persuaded L^d Uxbridge ² was at the head of everything connected with the Palace, I never thought of asking him till I was told of my error – I dare say he will give it me today – shall I send it to Laycock, or keep it till you come? We have been here since Saturday, & were to have gone back to town today – but P^e Albert ³ is so fond of Windsor, that we stay a day longer –The drives in open carriages with four fast ponies are certainly delightful – & the scenery just now is quite beautiful – The oaks are just beginning to clothe themselves with tiny leaves – & the Beach are in the greatest beauty possible – of the most lovely green, feathering down to the ground, with dark hollys growing under them – The children ⁴ are here enjoying themselves – L^d M^t E – ⁵ went to Bromley for change of air, but was ill again & came home Tuesday – he is better again now, & very impatient to be off

Y^rs aff^ly
Caroline

Pray come soon & see it before we go –