My dear Henry

I am sorry that I cannot arrest your party in their wanderings but I have been, & shall be, wholly prevented for a long time to come. Sir Christ^{r <1>} is absent so long in the year from his constituents, that our visiting is crammed into a small space of time in which we have much to do. the house has been full ever since Jane ^<2> came here with her Childⁿ. They left us this morning & we have only Lord & Lady Dunraven ^<3> & their Chilⁿ till Wednesday when we have a fresh importation – We go to the races the middle of next month & then return our visits at that end of the country, preparatory to departing from it again. Charlotte ^<4> is tolerably well & went this morning with Jane to Merthyr Mawr. ^<5> I was not insensible to your attention in writing to us, my dear Henry but I had little to say in return, at that time. I write now principally to advise you to go & see the Museum in Park street which M^r Dillwyn ^<6> says is very well worth going to, & as M^r Miller ^<7> (a german [sic] who has the care of it, is a fr ^<8> of his, he knows if you mention his name, he will shew you particular attention. this [sic] time of year ought to be a good one for Botanizing in y^r neighborhood tho’ you will not find any thing new – my love to all in g^t haste

your aff^e Aunt
M: L: Cole

Swansea August twenty nine thirty C.C. 1825. Chris^hr Cole.
W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
P. Office Clifton
Bristol.

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Notes:

1. Sir Christopher Cole (1770–1836), Captain, MP & naval officer.

2. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874).

3. Windham-Henry Wyndham-Quin, 2^nd Earl Dunraven (1782–1850), and his wife.

4. Charlotte Louisa 'Charry' Traherne, née Talbot (1800–1880), WHFT’s cousin.

5. Merthyr Mawr, Glamorgan, on River Ogwr.

6. Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778–1855), Welsh botanist & MP.

7. Probably Mr Müller of Bristol. [See Doc. No: 01298].

8. Text torn away under seal.