4 Circus Tuesday
April 9th

My dear Henry

Are you coming back on Saturday? – Your fortnight is up today – and I believe Hill is watching anxiously for your next move, that she may get her chimneys swept, and rooms cleaned up in readiness for our all going home.

I return Mushet’s last letter, because I think it now requires to be answered – and there is danger of his making another serious blunder in the matter of the furniture – What he proposes in this letter is simply impossible. It is nonsense to talk of a sale on the 14^th!! The tenant vacates on the 11^th (Saturday) the 12 being Sunday is a day on which we can do nothing. Suppose on Monday the 13^th we send a Person direct from Bath to commence moving packing the bulk of the furniture intended for removal? – it is evident that no only Monday, but several following days will be required to complete the packing and removal – After which M^r Tait will have the offer of chusing such things as may suit him to purchase for himself – last of all comes the sale – The 25. is the house term – and when the agents proposed to put the Purchaser in possession on the 13^th it was solely for the purpose of giving him time to sell the furniture that had been forced upon him, and that he didn’t want – in fact that would have to be got rid of before he could get space to place put in his own furniture from Park Place – That being all altered, of course M^r Tait cannot require us to do impossibilities. – We must risk for the moment a difficulty about the auctioneer. – I feel doubtful of there being enough articles left to require a sale on the premises – We will of course act with all possible expedition, commencing on the 13^th and will give full powers to M^r Stokes’s foreman (whom we send to remove the things) to settle with Mushet (amicably) all these matters. – M^r Stokes will warehouse our furniture when it reaches Bath, in the event of our being still unprovided with a house –

My cold is much better –

Your affectionate
Constance

Please thank Charles for his letter.

[envelope:]
H. F Talbot Esqre
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham