TALBOT8802

[on mourning paper]

St Hilary
Feb. 14 / 64

My dear Henry

Thank you very much for your photographs of Lacock which are very pretty indeed – I hope you will send me some of the inhabitants or quondam inhabitants represented in the same size M^rs Morse was with me when they arrived & is quite pleased to think you will make her seeds from the Cape [illegible] – as neither she nor I have a stove – and she intends to try your plan of growing fern seeds – I am going to Penllergare on Tuesday & intend to stay there a fortnight and then go to Penrice – We have a charming day succeeding a very violent storm, and the birds are singing and my german [sic] oxlips coming out like spring – Give my love to M^rs Talbot & your daughters

Yours aff^ly
Charlotte L Traherne

[black-bordered mourning envelope:]
W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^r
8 Rutland S^r
Edinburgh