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Lacock
Monday 9 July

My Dear Hor^a

I am glad you and Ernestine ¹ posed the other day – It will make a pretty tableau. I wish you could get some of the fashionable folk to patronise Nicole ² – if they only bought one specimen each from him it would encourage him very much as he is afraid to advertize [sic] from the great expense –

I hope the Roman photographer who made the beautiful things which Caroline ³ sent me has not been killed by a stray ball or bomb – If he survives don’t you think he would be glad of an order sent to him to take some views of the scenes of Gen^l Oudinot’s ⁴ late operations? Tell Caroline we have settled to send Charles ⁵ to M^r Atwood’s ⁶ school after Christmas and ask her whether Charley ⁷ is not going there too? I know that M^r Atwood was going to write to her something about it.

Y^r aff^te
Henry