TALBOT9248

13. Great Stuart St

Thursday June 20.

My dear Henry

Since I wrote last I have been getting accounts settled, and I find my money running shorter than I expected – and with the journey out to Dover, instead of the short one first spoken of (where I might have rec^d a remittance) it will not be prudent to trust only to what M^lle Amelina¹ offered to lend me – Will you therefore send me by return of post a cheque on Coutts for £50–? I will get the Bank of Scotland to cash it, and I shall get it so as to settle last payments on Monday morning – by Goodwin.²–

We are going on smoothly with our packing – an arduous part of it being to set things aside properly for the letting of the house – We heard no more of the last Party who came to view.

Please tell Charles³ that Monie⁴– thanks him for his [ill. del.] letters this morning, & m3ans to write to him on the 1^st leisure day – but she has been busy this morning & is just going out with me, for an hour to take leave of the Abbotts ⁵– and do a little thing or two. We shall not want the ‘Times’ after next Saturday which we shall get on Sunday morning – therefore will you please to write & stop it? And what do you intend doing about the Athenæum. it should be stopped altogether perhaps? –

Your affectionate
Constance.

Tell Charles that we are not at all disposed to give up any of the sights en route – but adhere to our first plan – Monie being so much stronger we may venture on the whole –

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H. F. Talbot Esq^re
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wiltshire