TALBOT10043

To Kit
Pray don't leave Town before I return, that is to say Tuesday - Your Aff^te H. Talbot

Normanton,

June 21. 1822

I forgot to mention a curious circumstance whith respect to Luffenham church. The flash of lightning stopped the clock, without doing it any damage, so that the time when it happened became known, which [missing text] a little before 10. The noise of the thunder was so great, that nobody heard the steeple fall down. ¹ The newspapers hae the following epigram on Marsh-

An Ecclesiastical View
A dreary prospect, soil unkind,
A produce mean and harsh
All this and worse methinks you'll find
In Peterborough Marsh.-

If you ever saw the view over the Fens from Peterboro' Cathedral, you will allow the faithfullness of the above simile. Pray send the enclosed letter in the Ambassadors Bag - ² and tear off my note above & give it to Kit.

Yours Aff^te
H.T.

[address panel:]
Lady Elisabeth Feilding
31 Sackville Street
London

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