TALBOT1786

Winchester

28^th January 1829

My Dear Mother

I am going to Highclere ¹ tomorrow for a day or two, & shall very likely be at home Saturday or Sunday. I staid four days at the Grange; ² the party consisted of Lady Lyndhurst, M^r Baring Wall, ³ M^r Coesveld who married a daughter of Sir Tho^s Baring’s, ⁴ & a Roman Catholic young lady Miss Tichborne – I saw today a beautiful M.S. of the Bible which was lately found in the wall of the Cathedral in 3 vols. folio hidden perhaps at the Reformation or in Cromwell’s time. ⁵ It is not at all injured by damp, the illuminated pictures are as bright as ever. The interior of this cathedral is one of the finest in the Kingdom.

I hear the dinnerbell which obliges me to conclude

Your aff^te Son

Henry Talbot

Lady E. Feilding
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wiltshire