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Melbury ¹Dorchester
9 June

My dear Henry

Caroline ² tells me you are all at Lacock – Are you going to stay – Are you coming up to town? We go to 31 O B. St. ³ on Monday – call if you go up –

The country is lovely just now. I never saw the foliage so fine.

I have got in flower Arum orientale & triphyllum out of doors here.

A very pretty white Saxifrage here is I think S. cotyledon do you know it? & a rose I take to be Rosa myriacantha from the Crimea – white, single.

I hope Edward Nicholl ⁴ is settling himself. I do not know the Parsonage ⁵ at Lacock.

What an unsatisfactory state the Continent is in. an awful crisis ⁶ seems to be preparing – when to explode, is a mystery!

Hope your party are all well

Y^r aff^e
W^m