TALBOT2312

Wednesday

My dear Henry

M^r Feildings ¹ gout mends slowly but I still think we shall be able to get away Saturday but he cannot yet put his foot to the ground. Pray bring me from M^r Spencer ² a bottle of Tincture of Myrrh, as a large one will probably be inconvenient to you a small one will do for me, which I want very much, whether I go or stay.

The Dorsetshire Election was settled by a compromise between the Candidates, Lord Ashly ³ not to stand the next time. M^r Ponsonby ⁴ was disinclined to continue the Sorting, having such sums already & having begun the Election before a contest was foreseen, which is hard upon him.

aff^ly Yrs
EF

I hope you have received the Times regularly

Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r