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Tuesday eve

Sep^r 17

My dear Henry

The Peony from the Steep Holmes has been flowering well this year and the seed pods now look very pretty one has been broken off & I thought you might like to have some of the seed, so I send it, we opened one pod before it was quite ready & were surprised to find the seeds red but as they ripened they began to get darker & darker & only the unfruitful ones, if I may call them so, remained red, the variety is very pretty & I keep the pod for an ornament!

We have been at Margam for a couple of days Horatia walked to the top of the wood & enjoyed it very much, the day was a very fine one & there was plenty of air. the Childⁿ were delighted to accompany us –

Thoedore is quite well again & the little girls all looking remarkably well I think.

Mamma is tolerably well we have got Miss S^t George staying with us now she is a most kind and cheerful companion she came from Dublin to Bristol by water which I think a tremendous sea voyage! but I believe she intends returning the same way, M^r Harris her Brother in law came with her but returned home after staying a week with us. – Jane & M^r Nicholl are just gone up to Town (John is with his Sisters at Margam & the youngest boy also) they took three boys to school. –

Harry Franklen is come home on account of his health he could not stand the heat of Borneo but is much better for his voyage home, I hear. –

Pray give my love to M^rs Talbot & the Childⁿ

I am your aff^ate coz

Mary