Lacock April 2d Good Friday
My dear Constance
In your way to Cumberland I think you might see Melrose and Abbotsford – Then from Hawick which is the end of the railway, you would take horses to Moffat or some other point on the Caledonian railway, and so to Carlisle. I recommend you to go to the inn at Patterdale for a few days, for you have seen little of Ullswater, and at this Season you would have the inn to yourselves, all comfortable. At Keswick why should not you go to the Derwentwater hotel by the lake side?
Ld Talbot’s solicitor was delighted with his visit to Lacock and the old parchments he found. All Saturday and Monday he and Mr Awdry devoted themselves to strenuous researches I enquired whether the results appeared favourable to Ld Talbot’s claim or the reverse. “All favourable” said Mr Nicholson – The case comes on again in the H. of Lords on the 15th April. We found an interesting letter from Sir John Talbot to his daughter Lady Ivory who was travelling up to London forbidding her most positively to travel on the 30th January the anniversy of Charles the Martyr, or to prophane that day, like carriers or Waggoners, but to stop at Dunstable and attend divine service both morning and evening, fasting till supper time.
I think I shall return to Edinburgh about Saturday the 10th, if not prevented by any thing – If you continue to like Samuel you can engage him for 2 ½ months longer, or to join us in London about the 1st of June – He would be useful there probably
Your affte
Henry