Duchess Street <1>
Sept 3d
My dear Henry
I am very anxious to be at home again & I hope we shall be able to get ready by Thursday. – but I will write again before then to say positively
Marian <2> will have some arrangements to make, which will require a day or two after the last mournful ceremony is performed.<3>– That is fixed for Tuesday – and the new Cemetery in the Harrow road is chosen for her resting-place. – I am rather glad that we shall have a quiet house just on our first coming to Lacock, & then by the time Lady Elisabeth <4> returns from Norfolk, we shall feel in better spirits. – I hope I shall see her when she passes through London – that is, if she intends to remains long enough for me to catch a sight of her –
We went out late yesterday into the Regent’s park for some fresh air – and we are going to do the same today. – How much pleasanter it is since the rain! –
Your affectionate
Constance –
Notes:
1. Her sister’s home in London.
2. Her sister, Marian Gilder, née Mundy (1806 – 14 October 1860); m. 6 August 1844 William Troward Gilder (d. 1871), Army Surgeon (ret).
3. her sister, Laura Mundy (1805–1842), ad just died on 1 September.
4. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.