Lacock.
Easter day 1867 <1>
My dear Mr Talbot,
Thanks for your consent about the money matters connected into this house: I have seen Mr West Awdry <2> and he will arrange all necessary matters. The tree which you consented to have cut down is down for which I am greatly obliged as it lets in a good view of Whitehall furrow which is a very picturesque object from my study window.
My mother is coming home in about three weeks time with three of her grandchildren – we have been having the most extraordinary series of gales that I ever remember at this time of the year, it blows hard every other day, The wind gets up about nine oclock in the evening of course everything is very backward as the weather is so very ungenial.
When last the Abbey garden I saw the Epimedium pinnatum in flower; there are a good many things coming on. a curious arum you have has flowered, and I think has another flower coming, the first flower did not open properly, when you come I hope you will watch the other bloom
Yours Sy
Edward P. Nicholl
[envelope:]
[printed on rear flap:] Lacock, Chippenham.
W. H. F. Talbot Esqr
13 Great Stuart St
Edinburgh
Notes:
1. 21 April.
2. West Awdry (1807–1892), solicitor, Chippenham.