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D^r M^r Talbot

We were all very sorry to give up the hopes of seeing you here which I in particular had built upon for saving my [illegible] fingers ^ye writing of manifold details I want Charles ¹ to know without my writing them, & which I meant to have communicated thro’ your Ears. – this hope being over I shall trouble you with a thicker packet than I can send by the foreign Post & which I shall take care you shall have on Sat^y next. it will only be a thick Letter tho’. –

I wished very much to have sent some little keepsake to Caroline & Horatia ² by you & should like to do so still if it wd not plague you to select it, but what I shd best like, & could I think best suit at least Horatia’s Literary genius, Books would I fear be particularly troublesome to you to carry. & I fear I can only recommend to you to watch for the first thing costing from 20 to 40 Shillings you hear either long for when you rejoin them & give with my most aff^cte Love.

I cannot bear to think how little I know those dear Creatures! however you did all you could to enlighten my ignorance & delight my Heart about them in the kind long Visit you did once make me in Nov.; for which once more accept my [text missing] ³ thanks & believe me to be [text missing]

Yr aff^cte Aunt
M Feilding

Wed^y Feb^r 25^th

Aug^{ta 4} sends you her kind remembrances

Henry Talbot Esq^r
No 27 Duke Street
S^t James’s
London