TALBOT9582

[on mourning paper]

4 Tottenham Place ¹
Oct 10. 1869

My dear Henry

I shall be obliged to go home to receive some friends who are coming to us this week or I should have been delighted to have accepted your most tempting invitation. You must let me pay you a visit another time for I want to see you & M^rs Talbot very much & to hear a great deal from you – I should have enjoyed dear Caroline at Lacock too but I cannot say when I should be able to do so & therefore it will be best to think no more of my disappointment.

Your aff^te Cousin
Jane H Nicholl

P.S.
No “roughing it” as you call it would prevent my enjoying Lacock pray assure M^rs Talbot of this.

[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham