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Lanelay ¹
Friday

Many thanks my dear Henry for your kind letter, ² I am sure I should have enjoyed rambling about with you at Penrice ³ very very much and a storm you might have had certainly for it blew very hard one or two days, but the day Mamma & I went to Worm’s Head⁴ it was as calm & sunny as any Summer’s day I longed for a scramble on the Head, but had business to transact & the shortness of the days would not have allowed me to enjoy it for any time if Mamma had had some one to keep her company on the Land whilst I was absent – Mary Anne ⁵ had returned to her own home to meet her school boys. –

Chris^{rs 6} letters are really heart breaking he writes so despondingly, I do wish Jane ⁷ was with him tho’ I cannot wish her to be so far off besides she could not leave her own duties. Lucy ⁸ is much better she tells me & seeing her improve so much has (I conclude) made Chris^r more uneasy that Lady Charlotte ⁹ does not shew the same good from the change of climate I hope however when they have been a little longer at Malta she will get stronger & then she may lose her cough, the dear little Children were all well when we heard. –

Mamma is middling but thinking so much about them all is not good for her –

My kind love to all my Cousins great & small I hope they are all well as you do not say any thing to the contrary. –

In great haste your aff^ate coz
Mary

We start again on Monday & are to be at Melbury ¹⁰ in a short time, I hope Aunt Lily & Horatia ¹¹ will go there for Christmas I wish you were all to be there too.