Lacock
February 3^rd 1867

My dear Mr Talbot,

Your men are now cutting down some trees in the field between my house & Mr Clark’s farm house, they have cut down one of those I asked you to have cut, but they tell me the other is not marked and as the one stands behind the other it is no use to my view the one being gone without the other, and its loss will not I am sure cause any eyesore from anywhere

I was sorry to hear from Wilkyns that Mrs Talbot had written to tell him that you could not be here next summer, I hope this is not true; the chief inducement to my coming here was the fact of your living at the Abbey, and although I have not seen much of you this last year still the feeling that you were there took away the feeling of banishment I otherwise should have felt. In a pecuniary point of view my change has been for the worse and although in one way I got what I wanted, in having more work, still I should never have thought of coming here if I had not understood from you that you would spend part of the year here.

I am going home to morrow for the week, my mother has had a bad cold which always depresses her, but is getting better, she is also rather nervous as Minnie is expecting an increase to her family. With love to all believe me

Yours truly
Edward P. Nicholl

[envelope:]
[on envelope rear flap:] Lacock, Chippenham.
W. H. F. Talbot, Esq^r
Great Stuart S^t
Edinburgh