My Dear Talbot,
I shall be very happy to dine with you on Wednesday next – and if I hear from you in the meantime that Mrs Talbot <1> could find Mrs Poulett Scrope <2> an odd corner to dress in – she will have great pleasure in accompanying me, and return at night.<3> Our carriage is not so close as to warrant a drive of nine miles in it in a dinner-dress – If there would be any inconvenience in this, say nothing about, and I will come alone.
Your’s [sic] every trulyG. Poulett Scrope
Castle Combe <4>
January 28th 1833.
Notes:
1. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.
2. Emma Phipps Poulett Scrope.
3. She attended the dinner; see Doc. No: 10020.
4. Castle Combe, Wiltshire, 7 mi NW of Lacock.