[written on the same sheet as a note from Charlotte Traherne - see Doc. No: 03517]
My dear Henry
I am delighted to hear that you have really a mind to settle in this county and will do my best to collect information for you. We shall be very glad to see you and if you were not in a hur[ry] <1> back to Lacock we should try to keep you longer than “a day or two”.
The Campanela hederacea does not grow nearer Penrice than Penllergare <2> I believe, it is here where we have it in profusion, I must have made some mistake when I wrote before. –
My love to my little cousins & their Mamma <3>
I am your affate coz
Mary
I have many nice little plants coming up from seed but now our Spring flowers are over, we cannot boast a gay garden here.
Chryseis will be difficult to remember at first, but it is shorter than the old name which is a recommendation to me!
Henry Fox Talbot Esqre
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Notes:
1. Written off the edge of page.
2. Penrice Castle and Penrice House, Gower, Glamorgan, 10 mi SW of Swansea: home of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot. Penllergaer, Glamorgan, 5 mi E of Loughor: home of the Llewelyn family.
3. Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1st daughter; Rosamond Constance ‘Monie’ Talbot (1837–1906), artist & WHFT’s 2nd daughter; Matilda Caroline Gilchrist-Clark, ‘Tilly’, née Talbot (1839–1927), WHFT’s 3rd daughter; Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.
4. Emma Thomasina Llewelyn, née Talbot (1806–1881), photographer; WHFT’s Welsh cousin.