Lacock Abbey
Friday
My dear Henry
I have received your letter & will be sure to send the carriage to meet you tomorrow evening I have sent a message to Mr Gale<1> about the scheme of the Bathroom<2> & shall hope to get an answer from him tomorrow, but he is unaccountably slow. I am very glad that you think more favorably about improving the Library and shall be very pleased to talk it over with you some day soon I hope it may not prove such an anxious or difficult undertaking as you seemed to anticipate
I had read the debate on Mr Horsmans<3> motion with much interest I am glad he brought it forward but is it possible that the matter can rest there?
Today our Times has failed perhaps it may come tomorrow
Yr affectionate
Constance.
Notes:
1. John Gale, carpenter at Lacock.
2. This was the first dedicated bath room (and an interior one at that!) at Lacock Abbey - see Doc. No: 06574 and Doc. No: 06612.
3. Rt Hon Edward Horsman (d 1876), MP for Cockermouth from February 1836 till July 1852. He was then the unsuccessful candidate and subsequently sat for Stroud from June 1853-December 1868. His motion was to petition the Queen to challenge the appointment of a new Vicar in the nearby village of Frome by the Marchioness of Bath. It failed one first reading, but the debate went on for months.