Dabton
Thornhill
April 6^th

My dear Papa,

I have three letters of yours to answer – and I must begin by thanking you very much for writing to Lady Hylton – I should not have liked to have written to her again on the same subject, even had I known, (which I did not) that the R^ev H. Strangways lived so near Bruton – I hope the whole affair will turn out well = and as you say, it is only doing what can be undone after a few months should it prove a failure – I almost hoped you would say in your letter today that you had heard again from Genoa – I had a letter from Ela by the same post as Rosamond’s to you = and it certainly gave a most unsatisfactory account of Mama – just in about the same terms as the one you wrote to me – I fear she would feel much weakened after the attack had passed off. – but I hope, from ther not writing again before this, that there was no return of the feverishness she complained of at first – & that she is going on well – Those sudden changes of temperature must be most trying to bear – & certainly, as you say, I think our spring has this season the advantage of their Italian one = I received your little packet of seeds quite safely. & if you really do not want the remainder of the Horticultural collection they will be most acceptable here – I remember falling in love with the blue anemone when we were at Greta Bank. it grey grew in the little cottage garden at “Wordsworth’s Glen” = The woods here at [sic] full of the white wood anemone but the primroses are scarcely out at all –

The children send their love to Grandpapa & I am

your most affec^te daughter

Tilly

I expect John back from Edinburgh tonight – he went there on Saturday –

[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esq^r.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wiltshire-