London
July 10^th

My dear Henry

Thanks for your enquiries after my foot, which turned out much better than I expected, for it did not hinder my dancing at Almacks, ^<1> nor yesterday at L^y Rendleshams ^<2> – Pray keep some roses for me, I shall take it so unkind if they are all gone when I arrive. We are all in un mar di confusione ^<3> preparatory to the ball – very unlike the quiet shades of Laycock.

Addio, give my love to Constance ^<4> & the wee things & the enclosed programme to Amandier ^<5> – it may divert her. Please some of you write soon –

Y^r aff Sister
Horatia

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Notes:

1. Almack’s Assembly Rooms, founded by William Almack in 1765.

2. Eliza Charlotte Prescott, Lady Rendlesham (d. 1840).

3. A sea of confusion.

4. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

5. Amélina Petit De Billier, ‘Mamie’, ‘Amandier’ (1798–1876), governess and later close friend of the Talbot family [See Amélina's journal].