Dear Henry
not having had the pleasure of seeing your wife <1> yet, I must beg you to present her with a specimen of welsh manufacture which I have had for her ever since the cold weather, I am afraid she will melt at the sight of it this summers day all here join in love & I remain
your aff Aunt
Mary L: Cole
Henry Talbot Esqr
29 Albemarle St <2>
Notes:
1. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (30 Jan 1811 - 9 Sep 1880), m. WHFT 20 Dec 1832.
2. WHFT lived at this London address, just down the street from the Royal Institution, for half of April and the whole of May, 1833.