TALBOT4610

Thomas’s Hotel ¹
Sunday Sept^r 11^th 1842

My dear Henry

I should be delighted to take the Children to Laycock Abbey as Constance ² so kindly proposes, & see you both for a wee bit before beginning my Waiting, if I can make it possible, w^h however I very much doubt – I must see what I can devise, & must only beg of Constance to let me come without farther notice, if I succeed in contriving my journey thither – I have written to Baroness Lehzen ³ at Windsor, where I never discovered she was till today, to request her to give me all the information in her power respecting the Queen’s ⁴ movements – & according to when I hear, so must I act – I shall most gratefully acept your offer of accompanying Val. ⁵ & me to Hatfield, that we may not be wholly unprotected livrés ⁶ to M^r Attwood ⁷ – but I scarcely know how, (supposing I do not manage my visit to Laycock,) without you making you come to Town, w^h w^d be a great pity, unless I merely call for you there, without scarcely stopping – this is supposing the Qⁿ’s return takes place soon, so that we have not time to communicate – I have also another trouble in the non-arrival of certain boxes containing not only many things I want myself, but great part of poor Val’s trousseau – they left Teplitz the same day we did & were to have arrived [illegible deletion] Via Hamburgh in 8 – days, & they are not here yet – but those sort of promises & arrangements invariably fail – I hope I shall be able to compass seeing you, & flatter myself the Qⁿ will not be quite exact this time – Best love to Constance, & pray remember me kindly to Miss Mundy ⁸ –

Flora & Annie ⁹ are at Teplitz with Ernest ¹⁰ –

Y^rs very aff^ly
Caroline