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My dear Henry

We are very much obliged for your seeds, which I dare say will be a great ornament to our stove & I wish we could persuade you to come & see them blow – I was very sorry that we could not stay longer at Lacock as I should have enjoyed it very much and as we are not great frequenters of London I fear it will be long before I have an opportunity of endeavouring to make myself agreable [sic] to your cara sposa ¹ to whome I am impatient to appear in the character of a real cousin – in our family I think that name has always been synonymous with friend –

We have heard of nothing but the fancy ball at Cardiff since we came home, which took place a few days before and has delighted every body – They all love to appear in characters most opposite to their own & one young lady not remarkable for beauty or spirit chose that of Catherine Seyton ² – I suppose she told people whom she meant to represent or I am sure they would not have known – Emma ³ sent me a little Tyrrolese patois song to decipher the other day – it passes my knowledge & abilities so I send it you, pray make it out

Kit ⁴ slept here one night last week in his way to Margam ⁵ & looks very well, he came form Naples to Marseilles in the Galatea & was ten days about it & the diligence which he tried from thence to Lyons seems to have been still slower & more tiresome he saw John Strangways ⁶ at Paris & I suppose he is in England by this time – Mama ⁷ is at Penrice ⁸ now & Kit is going there next week – Emma & M^r Llewellyn ⁹ will be there too – Give my love to Aunt Lily & Horatia ¹⁰

your affectionate cousin
Charlotte Traherne

M^r Traherne ¹¹ desires his remembrances also–