TALBOT5701

Laycock Abbey
Sunday 2^nd

My dear Henry

I have settled to go to Bowood ¹ Tuesday & therefore shall no longer want the Globe you so kindly supplied me with. I shall be quite sorry to leave the Abbey it is so very quiet & peaceful & I made myself very snug in your Library, with the unwanted appliances of flowers, novels, workframe & comfortable bergère ² – I am getting much stronger & am able to eat comfortably – If the weather were not so muggy I should get on still quicker

I hope you will follow the good example of the others & do yourself some real good at Cheltenham Do pray to please me

Y^r aff sister
Horatia

I suppose I shall go on to M^tE. ³ with Caroline. ⁴ Her children are to be at Bowood tomorrow.