TALBOT4350

Sunday Oct. 31^st

My dear Henry

Thank you for a half £30– cheque received this morning – and will you thank Lady Elisabeth ¹ for a bill & receipt from her which has also reached me in safety this morning! – I am glad to hear a good report of your health in such a short letter as this. ‘We are pretty well’ would please & content me any day when you have no time for more. – I have at last met those old friends of our family M^rs Howard & her sister Miss James – The former embraced me tenderly & declared she remembered me perfectly, though I could not have been more than 2 years old at that time.

I am to drink tea with them on Tuesday. – And am I not gay! – I propose on Wed to be present at an evening Lecture on Polarised Light illustrated by numerous experiments on Light & Colour by means of the Hydro-oxygen Polariscope – The lecture to be delivered by the Mess^rs Keovil who will conclude the entertainment by exhibiting their Diorama on dissolving views – which I have been told are so pretty by those who have seen the same kind of exhibition at the Polytechnic. – I mean to promote Price ² into a Companion for the occasion of the lecture even being close by at the Royal Hotel, is quite handy for us –

Your affectionate
Constance –

Doctor & M^rs Allanby have paid me a visit, introducing themselves as friends of my Sisters ³ as well as of the family at Moreton. ⁴ – Perhaps he wishes for a little of our Custom if any of us should happen to fall sick –

Matilda’s ⁵ sweet kiss & love to Papa – and sends him a bit of sea weed –