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[The wrapper for this letter is in a private collection:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esq^re
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

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Penllergare ¹

Feb^y 9

My dear Henry

I must write a line to congratulate you on the birth of your Son ² I hope he may grow up a comfort to you both and that you may not have any more anxieties than are inevitable about him. –

Give my kind love to your dear Wife ³ & tell her she has my best wishes for her speedy recovery. I daresay the three Graces ⁴ are much pleased with their baby Brother. –

Mamma ⁵ is not very well she has been so much excited lately and feeling so much for poor Emma ⁶ that it is not extraordinary she should suffer now.

Emma is quite composed and is improving in health now but suffered much from her loss, tho’ of course an infant of little more than a fortnight will not be missed as a pretty little prattler would have been. –

Charlotte & M^r Traherne ⁷ are here but they go on Saturday. I hope they will meet Aunt Lily ⁸ at Melbury ⁹ the week after next as she talked of going there. –

I am your aff^cte

Coz

Mary