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Thursday July 1^st

My dear Henry

If your offer for the house in the Regent’s park should be rejected it will be fortunate for my Sisters ¹ – for they are wishing to leave Town & have proposed to come to Lacock next week for a short visit – and they mean to return to Duchess St before the departure of out travelling party to see the last of them. That will be near the end of July, they think – and after this they will leave London again for a longer period – If my Sisters should really have left Town, I shall have little pleasure in being there. But if you like to learn their plans more positively than I can tell you now, I advise you to send Nicole ² to Duchess St for information.

I do not consider 10£ per week so cheap as a good house ought to be after the breaking up of the Season. – but I leave the whole matter to your decision. –

We accomplished going to Bowood ³ yesterday the day was fair but gloomy. – Still everything in the garden & in the grounds looked lovely. I never saw the Italian garden so beautifully arranged or so well filled with charming plants. – I thought it quite a pity that its owners sh^d be compelled to lose its beauties for so many weeks – I was sorry just to have missed seeing Lady Landsowne ⁴ – but the weather had hitherto been too showery for such an expedition.– & I was very sorry to hear from M^rs King ⁵ so indifferent an account of Lord L. ⁶ Have you heard since of L^d M^t Edgecumbe? ⁷ –

y^r aff^te
Constance