TALBOT4517

Bath
Thursday April 22^d

My dear Henry

I hope Charles ¹ remembered my two messages to you yesterday. - I was so sorry I omitted to write by Sunday evening's post. according to promise. but I was advised that the non ordering of the Cobourg ² to the Station on Monday w^d sufficiently indicate that we had changed the day -

I think you may like to see what Harriot ³ proposes about their coming to spend a fortnight at Bath. I shall be very glad for my dear Brother's ⁴ company - and I think if the weather should be fine, they may find it a pleasant change. I am sure it must be good for both of them to get away from Markeaton ⁵ occasionally. Harriot talks of the 31^st - by which I may understand the 1^st of May - H having apparently forgotten that there are only 30 days in April. That will fit-in nicely with your time, as R^{d 6} tells me, which is very lucky. We had some thundery rain yesterday afternoon, which changed the air again - and it is very wet & chilly today. The sketching plan is of course postponed. -

Your affectionate
Constance

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H. F. Talbot, Esqre
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham