I delayed to thank you for your good natured recollection of our conversing until I cd tell you how successful your Charades & our Stall had proved the former I sold copies of for 2s each & they were much admired The one about Bony was twice solved here & we are not quite sure wch was right I made it out Sea-son & some body else explained it as Waterloo Pray tell me which is correct?
We went to Escrick for the Bazaar concern<1> & had a most agreeable party of 26 persons I found it a great fatigue selling, as we were obliged to be in our Stall four successive Morngs at 10 oC & to remain till 5 & we had besides a concert on Tuesday & a Ball on Wedy night but it was very good fun puffing & selling our goods & we were very fortunate having sold 140£ worth from our shop Ld Egremont <2> also sent me 100£ for the Bazaar Fund, so that we were reckoned to have done our business admirably .
I send you some seeds of the Passiflora Edulis of which you eat the fruit here
They should be sowed immediately & raised in the hot bed
Believe me very truly yrs
L D Herbert
Spofforth
Saty 19th Der 1829
Notes:
1. The Yorkshire Bazaar was held in the Assembly Rooms in York to benefit the County Hospital. It was an elaborate three day affair, supported by a concert and a ball. She sponsored two booths "principally occupied with fine drawings, oil paintings, a model of a church, and hand screens." She shared these with 'Miss Herbert', presumably one of her daughters, Cecelia Augusta Henrietta (later Ferguson, d. 1860) or Louisa Catherine Georgina (later Mundy, d. 1904). Escrick is seven miles south of York.
2. George OBrien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (17511837), and immensely wealthy patron of the arts.