My dear Henry
Be so good as to tell Mary the Housemaid that Montgomerie <1> will be in Town for a night probably about the 10th or 12th & that she is to be hospitable to him - I hope you found everything comfortable -
My letter to Paris asking you to bring me Galignani edition of Scott's work, <2> must have arrived too late.
Ever yrs affly
F.
Notes:
1. Probably Rev George Stephen Molyneux Montgomerie (1790-1850), close friend of Talbot family, artist, Rector of Garboldisham, near Thetford, Norfolk.
2. Galignani's Messenger, a newspaper that had a wide circulation among English residents on the Continent's edition of Sir Walter Scott's The Poetical Works (Paris: 1827).