TALBOT1962

London
27 Feb. 1830

My Dear Mother,

I found Lady F. Leveson’s ¹ last night was a ball, & I obtained an invitation thro’ Lady Lansdowne & Lady Cawdor ² – The house is very splendid, and I believe very few had ever seen it before – There are quantities of people in town Among others I saw last night the Grantham’s Ravensworth’s Cowper’s Willoughby’s ³ Montagu’s Shelley’s Stormont’s S^t Maur’s Baring’s Villiers’s ⁴ – Mary Fox ⁵ the D. of Devonshire Mr Dudley the Fazakerley’s ⁶ &c –

M^rs Baring has a party tonight.

Yours aff^ly
Henry

Lady Willoughby ⁷ told me she regretted exceedingly not seeing you at Grimsthorpe, but the house was so crowded that she was even obliged to put off her daughter Clementina.

Turn over

Pusey ⁸ has bought a seat in the H. of Commons – Porchester ⁹ is dying to get in, but can’t raise the cash. I think Lord L. ¹⁰ might very well have returned him.

I rowed Sandon ¹¹ last night for voting against reform.

Lady E. Feilding
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham