London – Victoria Hotel
Euston Square.
My dear Henry
We are at this hotel from Crewe today – arrived very comfortably at ½ past 4. Weather charming – hay making and being carried all along the line – The country very pretty through the Trent Valley &c and avoiding smokey Birmingham. If you want to write, a letter will find us at the Victoria Hotel Euston Sqre on Friday morning – as we have decided to stay all through tomorrow and go down to Dover by an evening train on Friday – After that you must direct, Post office, Dover, as we cannot tell where we may be located; but of course we will write to you the earliest day we can, which will be Saturday – We have good rooms at this Hotel, and I am pleased with the quietness of its position which I did not expect. It is far from Caroline and sufficiently so from Harriot & others – but it suited us best in many ways to remain at a terminus, from whence we equally start for Dover; which on account of our luggage is a great object. Tomorrow and Friday morning we shall have time to see the very few relations who are here.
The weather is quite perfect, not a bit too hot, although the Sun is so bright & cheerful – Rosamond keeps up quite as well, or in truth much better than I expected – for she has necessarily had a great deal more fatigue than one would have wished her to have – yet it is a great satisfaction as well as a great surprise to see her able to exert herself. After getting our dinner rather early she & the others have started in a Cab for a stroll into Oxford Street or where ever they may chuse to be set down. –
Ela wrote to you from Crewe – and told you about the letting of our Edinburgh House – Mushet was sorry he could not get more than £60 – and I left him to conclude the business with Mr Anderson on those terms – Anything that may have occurred since, Goodwin can probably tell, as he will have been assisting Mushet with the Inventory yesterday & today –
I should like to know till what day I may contrive writing to Lacock that I may think of all the things that should be mentioned, either to yourself or to Goodwin there – at present my thoughts are rather scattered by the bustle of the journey & I must have time to collect them.
Your affectionate
Constance.
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H. F. Talbot Esqre
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham