Wednesday
Caro Enrico <1>
Pray bring two Cambric Pocket handkfs & a pair of Gloves I left on the breakfast table the Morning I was coming away. As you stay so long I send you a newspaper pitying anybody in the country ab imo corde <2> without one. I wish you had translated the Inscription did you get a billet from <illegible>
Yrs affly
don’t forget to tell Mcphail <3> he is to search always the baskets that go back for Letters from Us.
W. H. Fox Talbot Esqr
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Notes:
1. Dear Henry.
2. From the bottom of its heart.
3. John Mcphail, Lacock Abbey gardener. [See Doc. No: 01676, Doc. No: 01698, and Doc. No: 01594].