TALBOT1509

[although unsigned, the main letter is in the hand of Lady Elisabeth]

Worthing
Freytag ¹

Mein schatzen²

Aus liebe für mich ³ do make one more effort to find the said old pedigree book & album - I think they must be in that large round table which generally stands in the front drawing room, & is I conclude there now, in the middle of that conglomeration of meubles. The album I believe is in an old leather cover. M^r Feilding ⁴ has lost his Beret de Basque which we brought him, & he likes it so much he begs M^r Wates will inquire for it, it was left in the fiacre N^o [blank space] Will you tell M^r Wates this, & likewise to go to our newsman & change the Morning Chronicle for the Morning Herald.⁵ I suppose you read it every day before M^r W. dispatches it to us. Pray desire Sarah ⁶ to go to M^rs Edwards ⁷ in the Quadrant, & to enquire for an answer which means some money (owed to Gwynne ⁸) which Giovanni ⁹ is to bring her. Sarah knows all about it.

After all Richard ¹⁰ says he does not know the N^o of the fiacre & thinks the Beret was left in Sackville Street, ¹¹ pray desire Sarah to look for it & if found to put it carefully by till M^r F. returns. If you find yourself par hasard ¹² walking by N^o 86 S^t James's Street opposite Pall Mall, pray look at a new invented Planisphere by Wollaston, ¹³ & let me know whether you think it worth twelve Shillings.

Leben sie [sic] wohl mein zärtlich geliebt ¹⁴

We have never been able to get a Harp here.

Caroline ¹⁵ is sadly afraid she has lost a certain green marble sketch book of M^r Montgomerie's, ¹⁶ with some beautiful sketches of Genoa. We took it the last Evening to amuse Charlotte, ¹⁷ & think it must be left in the table dra[wer]¹⁸ of my dressing room. Pray look for [it] & make her mind easy. If it is troublesome to bring it with you lock it up there.

[added note by Charles Feilding:]

This drawing room is so small we cannot all warm ourselves at once, so I often retire to my own room pour me rechauffer, but you will have your own withdrawing room below.

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^r
31 Sackville Street
London