TALBOT4826

Laycock Abbey
26 May

My Dear Henry

I have just received your reproachful Letter, but before you left England I warned you ¹ there could be no reciprocity in our Correspondence All that could be told from hence you have ere this heard from Constance ² and now she desires me to give a message from her, that she has taken house at Clifton ³ for 3 weeks from the 29^th and you are to direct to her N^o 5 - Glocester row [sic], Clifton. We go the same day to London. your [sic] Letters have been infinitely amusing, & I think you were were [sic] wise to take the journey leisurely & imbibe as much change of air as possible. Caroline ⁴ is in waiting at Claremont ⁵ which being a very pretty place she enjoys much. She begs you will pay Amandier ⁶ for the Music she sent her, and Louise Lansdowne ⁷ requests the same favour at your hands, for a bonnet she owes Louisa Galwey. ⁸ M Montgomerie ⁹ was to have done all this, but as he has been so ill he probably will not hear anything about it before he leaves Paris.

Poor Nurse More's happiness here (which has been very great) has been suddenly put an end to by hearing by this Morning's post that Julien Fane ¹⁰ is given over in a fever at Harrow - She is going immediately to him in hopes her care May recover him, his Father & Mother are both at Berlin Poor L^y Westmorland! ¹¹ She lost a charming daughter of twelve y^rs old not very long ago. I wish you had gone to Cantelin[?]

The weather has been so bad & raining that I the less regret leaving the Country - I hope you have more Sun where you are, or you cannot do much. Pray write soon & tell me how far the affair is advanced. Harriot Mundy ¹² is inspired to give a Concert, I am quite surprized at this unusual hilarity - The Hungarian Lilac is not blue but very pretty. The Gueldre [sic] rose is one mass of blossoms -

Aff^ly Y^rs
E F

[envelope:]
Mons^r.
Monsieur Talbot
Hôtel de Douvres
Rue de la Paix
Paris