TALBOT6706

Mount Edgcumbe ¹
Sunday Nov^r 28^th 1852

My dear Henry,

I was so pleased to get a letter from you at last, & to read your kind words! They comforted me for your long silence – & I was also much toucheé at what you say of Aunt Mary’s ² sympathy, & that of the rest of my Cousins. I sent you a letter the other day, apparently from Mary Talbot, ³ & wondered whether you were coming to see me, as it was directed here – Pray write to me again soon.

Lord M^t E. ⁴ has been improving daily since last Monday – which was the first day he said he felt any better; but it will, I fear, be a long, long while before he recovers at all the use of his hands – or is able to be moved. He can bear being talked to now & can talk himself, although he sleeps a good deal in the day – & today, for the first time, I read him one of the speeches – Sir James Graham’s ⁵ – I can only wonder what is going to happen in the world of politics! – I advised Wright ⁶ not to tie himself down to go to Laycock on any particular day – as the moment he begins to think of writing to fix a day, he seems to get ill again. I told him he could very well afford a fly, after economising so long, & then he need not trouble you to send for him – but might go at once when he felt able. I do not know if he is aware of what his attack was – I rather think he only supposes it was weakness – but it was an Apoplectic fit. However he is now very well again in health – only his legs seem to give under him from weakness.

Love to Constance & C^o

Y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline

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Henry Fox Talbot
Esq^re
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham