TALBOT5094

Lacock Abbey
Sunday Oct 6^th

My dear Henry

I received your letter from Durham yesterday ¹– but having written the day before (Friday) to Jedburgh, ²I reserved myself for Edinburgh till today – I am so sorry at your being so fatigued by the York Meeting ³ – I rather think you must have indulged too much in your fasting propensities – I know that you forget to eat when you are busy – & get exhausted before you are aware – so that you have not strength to meet any unusual fatigue. Do please eat some sandwiches or other luncheon between your breakfast & tea – and breakfasting early too, (which of course you do now) makes it necessary to have luncheon – I cannot otherwise account for your being so knocked up – The Literary Gazette ⁴ condemns the the Residents of York for their want of hospitality to the members – only Lord Fitzwilliam & the Archbishop ⁵ seem to have given entertainments – You individually would not complain of this. – I wish you had given me leave to send you a budget of letters to Edinburgh – for there are some which I fancy you ought to have – At least when I see the same handwriting twice within a few posts I imagine the writer to be anxious for a reply – These 2 I fancy may be from M^r Collen ⁶ – though I don’t know his handwriting well enough to be certain – Two others in a delicate character both addressed to you at York & in the same hand arrived from thence this morning. A fifth letter there is – addressed

Royal Polytechnic Institution
Regent St London

and on the seal is, Horsley (I think) Chemist, Ryde, Isle of Wight – Will you say in your next whether you will have these letters forwarded? I enclose one rec^d from Horatia ⁷ this morning – How happy she seems to be at Carclew – her description makes one wish to see it too. –

I had a much more communicative letter from Marian ⁸ yesterday – she seems now to be very happy – & speaks of being much stronger than for a length of time past – She says the sons & daughters ⁹ are continually contriving & striving to give her pleasure – It is a great comfort to me to feel that she is happy – though I dislike as much as ever the price she has paid for it –

The children ¹⁰ are going on, as I said in my last, – very well –

Your aff^te
Constance

There is a York Liverpool Standard of Tuesday – I can’t make out by its contents the reason of its being sent – but I will keep it –

[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esq
Post Office
Edinburgh