Lacock Abbey
Tuesday

My dear Henry

My Uncle & Aunt ^<1> are to leave Bath on Friday, so I propose to go with the children ^<2> on Thursday, to wish them good bye. –You see I am about to follow your advice of doing just what I please

I have heard from Lady Elisabeth ^<3> that they are coming down on or about the 6^th on which account I have, of course, deferred my invitation to Miss Cotton. ^<4>–

Your affectionate
Constance

I have been admiring the curious Russian flowers in the Greenhouse –

H. F. Talbot Esq^re
31. Sackville Street
London

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Notes:

1. Eleanor Newton, née Stephenson (1788-1880), wife of Sarah Leaper Newton's brother, Robert Newton Leaper-Newton (1775-1846).

2. Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1^st daughter, Rosamond Constance ‘Monie’ Talbot (1837–1906), artist & WHFT’s 2^nd daughter and Matilda Caroline Gilchrist-Clark, ‘Tilly’, née Talbot (1839–1927), WHFT’s 3^rd daughter.

3. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.

4. A flower-painter [see Doc. No: 03318].