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Lacock

31^st Dec^r 1844

My Dear Mother

Constance ¹ wrote you a line the same evening I came home, & I hope you received it.

I had not an unpleasant journey, but on the contrary very comfortable, & got home in less than seven hours, notwithstanding a delay caused by running against a cart somewhere near Trowbridge for it was a pitch dark night and no moon,

If Emily Murray ² reads my Genesis, ³ I am afraid she will think me as speculative as her brother Edward ⁴ –

Your aff^te

Henry

The tulips Horatia ⁵ brought from London are making a grand show in the library window; the heath by their side is eclipsed.