TALBOT2406

Lacock
Thursday

My dear Henry.

In the first Place, your mother ¹ wishes to know whether you have rec^d a letter she wrote to you ten days since & which L^d Auckland ² directed to you at Cowes. She fears from your not having taken any Notice of it that Kit ³ may be in Possession & that it has followed him to Glamorganshire –

On arriving here I found M^r Paley ⁴ [illegible] anxious for the establishment of a board of Health, & I accordingly write to Lansdowne ⁵ for the form in what the application should be made, his answer is arrived today & directs that a meeting of the principal Inhabitants should be called, & states that upon their application the necessary powers will be immediately forwarded – before therefore any thing further can be done, we want to know first whether you approve, & secondly when you intend coming as without your assistance nothing will go right – please answer these enquiries at your earliest leisure.

I had some conversation with M^r Paley respecting M^r Worsley ⁶ & the Curacy – poor man he seems in a labyrinth of difficulties, & indecision – I present however he is endeavoring to find a person to act as Curate & Tutor, remaining himself in [illegible deletion] The parish – The Galways are here & Vivian ⁷ & the weather is beautiful & the place lovely. I brought the Gout down in my knee, but it is gone again, & who has got it I know not – In the Counties there is no getting the voters to register themselves & in the Towns as none can vote who have not paid their Rates previously to the 20 August, & as very few have done so it follows that the Constituency will be might small partout ⁸ – I hear your reform dinner is to take place at Chippenham ⁹ next week. do you attend it?

Y^rs aff^ly
C. F.

We are just going a large Party to the Labyrinth which we hear is in the highest order as well as the Wood in general

W. H. F. Talbot Esq^re
Cowes
Isle of Wight