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My dear Henry

I return this with many thanks to you for writing. Now I hope the Editor will behave himself, & let us know something soon, & prove liberal if he takes it.

After a correspondence with Harriot,¹ I see no need of suppressing the sentence "gave up his own apartment" &c – those words, she says must be kept in, coûte qui coûte[sic],² & she sees no harm in the bed of white satin, though I might suppress it if it would join well without, but I see no sense in troubling about it, if "apartment" is to be left, as that necessarily implies a bed to sleep in, & if people will make evil out of that, they must. I would have left out "apartment" if she wished it – but as she says it must be kept in, Why I think it had best remain as it is.

Yours aff^ly
Louisa C. Frampton

Lulworth Villa
S^t Mary Church
Torquay – July 9 –

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Henry Fox Talbot Esqre
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts