TALBOT6801

31 B. St. ¹
20 May

My dear Henry

I shall be very glad to come to you at Lacock Monday next & I have engaged Caroline ² to stay a day longer there if possible – not to miss her on that classic ground.

The Trahernes ³ are at Everatt’s hotel very well – & stay three weeks. They give good accounts of all in Wales Jane ⁴ will not leave Rome till the end of the month.

Yesterday I went to Low ⁵ & Loddiges. ⁶ Low has not half the plants he pretends to have in his Catalogue – but he has some out of the way things. Loddiges no longer sells anything (except orchids) – all his stock is purchased by the Crystal palace I had the luck to meet at Low’s the Portuguese owner of that delightful garden at S^t [Michals?] in the Azores described in the Gardeners Chronicle. He is going to visit Abbotsbury ⁷ while he is in England to see what of their plants among others, have been acclimatised.

Y^r aff

W F S

G. Gadola ⁸ is engaged for six weeks –

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H. F. Talbot Esq^re
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham