TALBOT7737

Penllergare
Saturday

My dear Henry

I am quite provoked with myself for not bringing the steel plates down – I have sent to order some from your man in Red Lion court ¹ and will replace any you will kindly spare me, as I hope you will do at M^rs Talbot’s ² request (she is writing to beg for me), that we may be able to get on – I think your invention ³ more & more charming and am provoked with myself for not having the plates to engrave this very day, with the sun shining most photographically! However your daughters ⁴ & their mother will enjoy a walk and be able to get, a not unfavourable impression for their first time of seeing our valley, tho’ it is November! I hope we may have an equally fine day on Monday and get a drive down to the seaside – now they are going out to see the garden – Pray tell me what kind of flower is the Morina elegans? a thistle I suppose – Mary ⁵ will be here on Monday and shall have her plant – shall the Morina be kept in a cold frame for the winter? and the Campanula in the Greenhouse? both are new to us and we are very much obliged for them –

Believe me to remain your very aff^te cousin
Emma Llewelyn

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Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham