Laycock Abbey
Thursday

My dear Henry

I send you the letter from M^r Jennings ^<1> that Stilwell ^<2> sent me some days ago. M^r J. does not seem to know anything about dates &c as to the 300 a year that we know ought to be paid up to the time, but the 200 we are not sure about whether it is up to the last quarter only or to the day. Perhaps M^r King ^<3> would know – you see it was payable 5^th March & not Lady Day^<4> like the other. How hot it has been today – 83 again I took a drive to Melksham & was nearly baked. They had the picnic in InnWood ^<5> today – I am much better only still troubled with a blister in my mouth very uncomfortable –

y^r aff sister
Horatia

Please to answer Stillwell or tell me what I am to say.

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Notes:

1. Probably Peter Harnett Jennings (b. 1816), of The Shrubbery, Dover.

2. Of Stilwell & Company.

3. Of William Read King & Son, solicitors, London.

4. Lady Day is one of the traditional English quarter days, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, on 25 March.

5. Inwood, near Lacock, Wiltshire.