Dear Talbot,
You will think my correspondence everlasting – but we are anxious to know without unnecessary delay, whether Ms Talbot <1> and yourself will dine with us on Friday neat (the 23d) at six o’clock. There are beds, if you will sleep here.
Yours very truly
G. Poulett Scrope
Castlecombe
Saturday
[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esqre.
Lacock Abbey
Notes:
1. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.