TALBOT4929

Lacock
Jan^ry 30^th 1844

My dear Mother

Tomorrow I propose to go as far as Reading, & next day to London. Pray ask Kit ¹ if he will have room for me about the 6^th or 7^th – If he has, I intend coming to Margam ² for a few days then.

Do not stick into the album the 3 views representing the Cathedral of Orleans; ³ they are too faint, & I have now got much better ones – I am very glad to hear you had such a fine passage & liked the Sea breezes so much –

Constance ⁴ & all the children are laid up with bad colds and coughs which are generally called influenza. So sad and ailing the family has not been for a very long while – I am the only one who have [sic] hitherto escaped the complaint. Mr Kenrick ⁵ gives a bad report of the whole neighbourhood – It is a most sickly season, & I am glad you & Horatia ⁶ are away.

The Spring is now announcing its near approach; the thrushes are beginning to sing most melodiously –

Your journal is safe locked up in one of my drawers.

Your aff^te
Henry

Write to Sackville St ⁷

Mr Kenrick thought these colds would prove the hooping [sic] cough – now he thinks not.