TALBOT9288

My dear Henry,

It is very long since you & I have had any Intercourse, indeed it seems like ages past; but I have been for some weeks intending to send you some specimens of a new kind of Manufacture, which will I think, interest you in a scientific point of view, & which will accompany this letter.¹

The specimens are of different kinds of Paper, manufactured at Dorchester from the Fibres of Fir trees, which they purchase from Henry’s² plantations at Moreton. There is a fourth kind, of which I have no specimen to send & which is thick & of a dark blue colour, like that in which grocer’s pack their Coffee. Hitherto no Whiter Paper has been made, but they hope soon to accomplish Manufacturing White Paper & have promised me some specimens Whenever they are successful.

It strikes me as a very curious & interesting Manufacture, & I sent some Specimens to Sir Charles Lemon,³ who was much pleased & interested in it, & as I think it is in your way too, I cannot forbear making it also known to you. The Master of the Factory keeps the mode of Manufacture a great secret, & allows no one to see the works.

Harriot ⁴ tells me you are at Lacock, so I direct there.

Your aff^te cousin
Louisa Charlotte Frampton

Lulworth Villa
Babbicombe
Torquay – Dec^r 9^th –

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Henry Talbot Esq^re
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts-