TALBOT1730

Melbury ¹
24^th October

My Dear Henry

The last letter ² I wrote to you was to beg you to come straight to Moreton ³ which I still think you had best do, as it is uncertain what day we go back there, & your Aunt ⁴ is impatient to see you, & most likely we shall be there as soon as you, naturally, for we depend on Lord Belmore’s ⁵ mouvements, ⁶ which sounds odd, but your Uncle Ilchester ⁷ accompanies them to Plymouth to see them off, as their sejour ⁸ in Jamaica (of which he is appointed Governor) is likely to be long, & his departure now only depends on the winds. as every body is talking round me I am afraid this will not be very intelligible. Do not go to Laycock till we do, as you will not be comfortable

God bless you Dearest

I long to see you

Stinsford is pulling down & building up I went to see it. It looks melancholy

how very seldom you have writ[en]⁹ to any body & how excessively seldom to me!!!

Dorchester Oct^r twenty four 1828 H. Corry ¹⁰
Henry Fox Talbot Esq
Post Office
Brighton