TALBOT1226

Sackville S^{t 1}
16^th Dec. 1824

My Dear M^r Feilding

I heard yesterday of the death of Sir W. Lemon. ² I called upon Miss Feilding ³ yesterday, she was very cheerful and as I saw her a year ago walking about the room without difficulty. I met there Mad. de Gaja.^<4> Her account of L^d Winchilsea ⁴ is good, he is coming to Town the 24^th. George ⁵ is turning foxhunter, would you believe they have got him to put on a scarlet coat. Jane ⁶ & the baby are very well. I met Lord Auckland & Emily Eden ⁷ in Town. The Travellers is deserted, so are the other Clubs, London foggier than ever & half Macadamized. ⁸ Sackville S^t looks like Kerguelen's Land or the Isle of Desolation. ⁹ I have had an extremely bad cold that does not improve the appearance of things to me. I have written to M^rs Montgomerie ¹⁰ - No answer yet. The enterprizing African Travellers have sent home a very extraordinary account. D^r Oudney ¹¹ is dead, not of the heat but of the cold - The cold in December in N. Lat 12^o was so intense that the water froze in their vessels. It seems to be a vast tableland of great elevation perhaps 14000 feet. I am going to Abbotsbury ¹² on Monday

Y^rs aff^tly
H Talbot

I wrote a long letter from Dover, & have not heard a word from any of you.

Cause & Effect - from the newspapers

Two friends meeting: Well, says one, so Counsellor D. is dead, and has left very few effects - No wonder says the other, since he had so few causes -

Monsieur
M. le Capitaine Feilding

Hotel de la Terrasse
R. Rivoli
Paris