TALBOT7867

9 Prince’s buildings Clifton
May 2^d

My dear Henry

I am very glad to hear you approve of your dear Matilda’s ¹ choice & hope she may be as happy as one can wish no one can send more sincere & earnest good wishes for her future happiness than I do & I am only grieved to think how far off her home will be! I wish you were coming home whilst I am in England. that I might aleast [sic] have the pleasure of giving instead of sending some little Souvenir that I may not be quite forgotten as a Cousin! – I daresay you never got a letter I wrote to you some little time ago & sent to the Post Office Edinburgh. I was quite satisfied however when you wrote to Chris^{r 2}, as head of the family! – I was not with him at Margam but Emily mentioned the letter when she wrote to me. – Chris^r’s Election takes place on Wed^y & I think “the family” will go up to Cavendish Square the end of the week most likely. perhaps I may go too, for a short time the latter end of the month, but I intend being at Penrice in June –

Ed. Nicholl ³ is going out to his Mother to bring her away from Rome I hope they will have no trouble in removing but he says he thinks they must go by sea to Marseilles which will not suit her at all. Lucy ⁴ thinks herself much stronger than she was last year. I hope it may last.

Ever your aff^ate
coz Mary

My love to my Cousins all! Isabella ⁵ is in Glamorganshire & I am with her invalid daughter at Clifton she is better