TALBOT1976

Dear Talbot

Your letter ¹ has only just reached me & I hasten to tell you that I shall be too happy both to receive & to distribute your Parliamentary Reforms

I little knew you were in the agonies of authorship when I hazarded that remark but I knew you ought to do something & many a true word is spoken in jest – by the way did you read Hare & Thirlwalls ² defence of Niebuhr If not, do, it is at the Atheneum ³ – Thirlwalls closing sentence is a good specimen of his manner & there are sound views of polities in Hare’s part with quotations from the author himself well worth reading –

I have been obliged to come down here during Term time in consequence of the dangerous illness of my Uncle whose subsequent death you may possibly have seen in the papers – By the event the paternal estate devolves on my brother & the business arising out of it will detain me in Yorkshire a little while longer but I shall probably be back in Camb. in about ten days time

Yours Ever
Tho^s Worsley

March 29 1830

Hovingham
Whitwell
York

W. H. F. Talbot Esq^re
31 Sackville Street
London