TALBOT5161

Mama 1 wishes the grave 2 to be on the left hand side of the door going into the Churchyard from the kitchen garden – She thinks the best place, as far as she remembers, would be between the wall & Lady Call’s monument – It must not touch the wall, but be isolated, so as to leave room to walk all round it, when railed in – The grave is to be bricked, & made deep enough to contain 2 coffins, separated by iron bars – There should be space enough to plant flowers, besides for some [illegible deletion] monument, & the spot carefully marked out – which had better be done by means of a temporary wooden railing –

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