TALBOT2577

Jan^y 31^t 1833

Thank you, my dear Talbot,

for taking such interest in Irish rebels like Rorie Ogie & myself. I shall be very glad of the book, which I have never seen, though I do know something of Rorie.¹

Would it be bearing too hard upon your franking powers to-day to ask for three covers,² directed Mess^rs Davison, Lombard St. Whitefriars, London, and made postable at Devizes, not Chippenham.³ I mean to parody, in your favour, the verses “Come, thou Goddess &c. ⁴ and make it

Come, thou Member, frank & free.

Ever yours faithfully
Thomas Moore

The bearer will wait for the covers, if forth coming.

Henry Talbot Esq^re
Lacock Abbey