[The wrapper for this letter is in a private collection:]
Henry F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey

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Oakley Hall near Basingstoke

Nov^r 4^th 1827.

Dear Henry.

We are now on our way home, & I shall be glad to avail myself of your kind invitation to Lacock, & to accompany the Ladies on Tuesday. - Our engagements will oblige us to quit you on the day following for Bath, soon after Breakfast; and we will therefore be with you on Tuesday, as early as possible, from hence.

We mean to be at home on Saturday, where Middy & Charry ^<1> are anxiously expecting us. -

Yours very truly

Chris^hr Cole.

I fear the Squally Letter from Kit, ^<2> was left behind at Penrice. ^<3> - I had three Letters from him on Thurs^y the latest date the 29^th Ul^to of Sept^er -

[envelope in a private collection]
Henry F. Talbot Esq^re
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

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Notes:

1. 'Middy', probably a pet name for Mary Thereza Talbot (1795-1861), WHFT's cousin, and Charlotte Louisa 'Charry' Traherne, née Talbot (1800-1880), WHFT's cousin.

2. Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803-1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician; WHFT's Welsh cousin.

3. Penrice Castle and Penrice House, Gower, Glamorgan, 10 mi SW of Swansea: home of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot.