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Merthyr Mawr,
Bridgend.
June 12. 1871
My dear Henry,
Your “unnamed plant from Natal” is flowering very well just now – it did so last year when I was not at home. I wish you could see it! I have been enjoying the Garden excessively but the care I am obliged to take of myself is a great drawback. I am grown very old & cannot work in the Garden as is my wont! You & dear Uncle William have so many representatives in the Garden that you are constantly in my mind & I spend the most of my time there. Tell me all about yourself I am longing to know how & where you are. I am thinking of going to see Rice who is quartered at Dover but I am obliged to return home by the mid 25th so I may possibly not go at all. Lucy & Theresa are in London & the rest of the family are dispersed in various directions. Where are your family I have heard of nobody for a very long time. Do write to me – I have lately been enjoying so<me> old letters of yours & Christopher’s from Harrow & elsewhere, I felt quite young & happy in reading them.
Dearest Henry Believe me always your aff Cousin
Jane