TALBOT9997

Mount Edgcumbe ¹
Devonport.
Friday 1^st Aug

Dear Uncle Henry

Very many thanks for your kind recollection of me and for your invitation which I received this morning

I really very much regret that I cannot come now. I must stay here over tomorrow – and am under promise to be at Cowes on Monday – but as I am sure to be coming your way early in September, I will write and propose myself then in the hopes that it may be an equally convenient time for you to have me.

I am so glad to hear that some of the Australian seeds deigned to show themselves productive –

With kind love to all –

Believe me y^r aff^te nephew
C E Edgcumbe

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Henry Fox Talbot
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham