[on mourning paper]
St Hilary
Feb. 14 / 64
My dear Henry
Thank you very much for your photographs of Lacock which are very pretty indeed – I hope you will send me some of the inhabitants or quondam inhabitants represented in the same size Mrs Morse was with me when they arrived & is quite pleased to think you will make her seeds from the Cape [illegible] – as neither she nor I have a stove – and she intends to try your plan of growing fern seeds – I am going to Penllergare on Tuesday & intend to stay there a fortnight and then go to Penrice – We have a charming day succeeding a very violent storm, and the birds are singing and my german [sic] oxlips coming out like spring – Give my love to Mrs Talbot & your daughters
Yours affly
Charlotte L Traherne
[black-bordered mourning envelope:]
W. H. Fox Talbot Esqr
8 Rutland Sr
Edinburgh