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Sackville S^{t 1}
22^d Nov. 1823

I was delighted to find my uncle Ilchester ² in town, but it was owing to a bad cut on his hand from a billhook,³ for which he thought it best to take advice – He returned to Dorsetshire & William ⁴ came up from Lincolnshire from Sir R. Sheffields ⁵ the next morning – L^y Ilchester is there with Julia ⁶ whose accouchement is daily expected – William is uncertain when he goes, whether he shall carry despatches, & whether his expenses will be paid – He intends at present to visit you at Genoa – Lord Lansdowne ⁷ was at Paris when I passed there, which unfortunately I did not know – I have sent your Loretto rosary to my Aunt, and she invites me to Bowood, ⁸ where I shall go in the course of the winter. I am going to Melbury ⁹ in a few days; from thence I think I shall go to Penrice ¹⁰ – Nicholl ¹¹ was in Town the other day, I only saw him once, he was looking very well – M^rs Campbell ¹² is at Melbury – Kit ¹³ at Oxford, going we hope to take a good degree – Giles ¹⁴ is with his regiment at Brighton he has already been capsized in a gig at Eton Montern and in a fly at Brighton, besides tumbling down stairs but these are minor accidents which he hardly deigns to mention. – I have given Caroline’s ¹⁵ drawings to her Aunt, who is delighted with them; your gold beads I left at Lady Jersey’s. ¹⁶

Nov^r 25^th

William is going to the Hague with L^d Granville ¹⁷ and not till January; he will accompany me in my visits to Dorsetshire & Penrice – I shall start by the mail Friday ev^g – I have found an excellent English master for Giovanni ¹⁸ who is very helpless in London, & no use to me: so I shall leave him here, & expect to find him an accomplished scholar on my return – I have taken a servant of Peploe’s who left him on his return to England, & has a good character from him –. He is also a friend of Giovanni’s; he is a Swiss who speaks pretty good English; I take him by the month – Maria goes on Thursday to Chester. She has some hopes of a place – M^rs Bankes ¹⁹ died lately in consequence of a fall, which was followed by an apoplectic stroke – You know of course the death of L^d Erskine ²⁰ – William is to have a salary this time,²¹ he does not know what – Giles arrives in Town tomorrow –

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Henry Talbot

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