TALBOT4409

Bath
Monday April 5.

My dear Henry

Thank you for your two letters. ¹ I hope you have had a bright pleasant day at Lacock notwithstanding the somewhat rough wind and occasional bad storms. Our little garden already looks much refreshed by the showers of yesterday & today. Ela ² has taken back to Pickering ³ the 2^d vol of ‘Records of the Past’. ⁴ – which and they undertake to correct their error by procuring by the 2^d edition of the first volume. She paid Lord Shelburne’s life ⁵10/– and has given the receipt into Monie’s ⁶ charge.

I hope M^r Ellacombe’s ⁷ present of Pelargonium from Asia Minor will florish at Lacock: but I do not infer from your notice of it that it possess much beauty I dare say you have written to tell him that you received it safely, & without delay. When he left it here with his card, the Servant told him that you had just started for Lacock, and he then desired it might be given to me, remarking that I should know what to do with it – I thought it so lucky that it came in time for the Carrier.

The enclosed letter by this morning’s post.-⁸

We have no news of Charles -⁹

Your affectionate
Constance

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H. F. Talbot Esq^re
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham