July 4th
Lanelay <1>
My dear Henry
We shall be glad to see all you have enumerated & hope you will find a month or six weeks amusement in the Mountains but remember that I can promise you little within doors that will enliven you, so you must bring your sedentary studies with you – of course you will not expect such spacious accomodations <sic> as you are used to, but make up your mind to what you can get – I cannot learn exactly about the time of the Packets arriving at Cardiff so as to land the Carriage but I will write to you again tomorrow or next day when I have made the enquiry for with the little children it will be very desirable if you could perform the whole journey (as you generally may) without stopping to sleep &c. I am afraid the dry weather will burn up the gaiety of my garden before you come – my kind remembrances to Mrs Talbot – Mr Traherne <2> is gone to explore a mountain road for us but Charlotte <3> sends you her love –
your aff Aunt
Mary L: Cole
Henry F: Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. Llanely, or Lanely, Glamorganshire: home of Lady Mary Cole and Mary Thereza Talbot.
2. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife, and Rev John Montgomerie Traherne (1788–1860), JP & author.
3. Charlotte Louisa 'Charry' Traherne, née Talbot (1800–1880), WHFT’s cousin.