TALBOT791

Markeaton ¹
Maundy Thursday!

My dear Henry

Will you enlighten me as to the name of the enclosed. ² It is an oldfashioned thing so I ought to remember it - but I don't! - I returned home yesterday & this morning am greeted with snow 12 inches deep! and a cold N.E. wind - such a change from last week, which was quite hot in London, more especially Saturday. -

I did not see very many kinsfolk - but Sir W. Gallwey ³ enquired much after you having an affectionate remembrance of my Aunt⁴ & the pleasant days in Sackville Street. ⁵ - I could tell him nothing very recent of Caroline, ⁶ but suppose her to be at Cotehele or Mount Edgcumbe. ⁷ The Ilchesters were not in Town but M^rs Strangways ⁸ & Maria Howe[?] were there. M^rs S. has given a stained glass E. window &c to Farley Church ⁹ which is a nice thing to have done. I have a regard for Sir Stephen Fox's old Church. -

I hope Ela's ¹⁰ Bulbs have prospered - Our gardener is in a great state of mind on account of the Frosts - 12 deg. on Tuesday Night. Certainly horticultural matters are pursued under great difficulties in this climate! I cannot get the "Duchess of Edinburgh" Rose Tea Rose - which Constance ¹¹ recommended in her last letter to me. Where did she get hers? - as I suppose I might procure it from thence?

Your Aff^te
H G Mundy

N. & E. were to leave England today wind & weather permitting - them - both doubtful methinks.