My dear Charles,

I am ashamed to think how ungrateful I must have appeared to you—for I believe it is more than a month since I received your beautiful present of Flowers & they have remained quite unnoticed by a line of thanks.— pray forgive me I have indeed been more or less so unwell since I received them that I have not been able to write or do any thing else— accept now my best thanks, I was very much pleased by your kind recollection of me— the Flowers are the prettiest things I ever saw, much too good to wear I think & I mean to do justice to them in a glass case —

—I think you have used your friends very shabbily in taking flight so soon again. I had no idea you were going away for the whole winter— I hope when you have any precious time to throw away you will find your way to Chirk Castle¹ where I assure you we shall both be delighted to see you—

ever dear Charles y^rs. most truly | F Myddelton Biddulph

Chirk Castle Jan^ry. 14^th. 1837.