TALBOT5409

Lacock Abbey
Sunday – Oct 12.

My dear Henry

I have received both your letters ¹ & think you very good to write two days following. I am very sorry for Lady Mary’s ² anxieties – did she go to London to see the last of the Talbots? ³ – I am sorry she should ever pass us without stopping & think the journey must have been a great deal too long for her. Will you not ask her to rest herself at Lacock in her way back? – I am glad you were going to have such a comfortable dinner yesterday – but I thought M^r & M^rs C Jones ⁴ were gone home. I can easily believe she would express her sense of civilities received here in strong language – Did you not remark that such was her customary style! – however I am very glad she was pleased – I do long to see the Mount Edgcumbe ⁵ views – particularly the battery scene. – Last week I wrote to Lady Mary about a Cook who had lived with her – but I dare say she had left home before my letter arrived – I heard an excellent account of little Ernestine ⁶ today. –

Your aff^te
Constance.