[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Horatia - see Doc. No: 01916]

Lacock Abbey
Saturday Dec^r 19^th

How very unlucky you should have sent for your Poney at such an unfortunate moment. It must have arrived at its destination just the day you came away & perhaps be all the worse for having been moved in such bad weather when it was not well. We knew nothing about it till some of us (not me you may suppose) missed it in the Stable. Pray write & amuse us with your adventures –

Ev y^rs
ETF

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq
31 Sackville S^t