TALBOT2692

2 Whitehall Yard
May 4

Dear Sir

I have had a very severe feverish attack & can just lay pen to paper – however I will not delay thanking you for y^r kind suggestions – My intenti ¹ if I had been well enough was to have affirmed the standard & moved for a select com^tte into the expanding of a conjoint silver & gold standard, or silver alone – & into a better regulated system of banking & of issue, This to have comprehended both [1 P?] notes & B. of E. notes being legal tender except from the Banks You need be under no alarm for the latter – under the Rose I was told by him who knows best – That gov^t intended proposing it – and Lord Althorp ² from what he s^d to me the other night will I think place no insuperable objection agn^t an enquiry into a silver standard – But when it is to be brought on is the question –

Yours v^y Truly
E S Cayley

E S Cayley
H. F. Talbot Esq M P.
29 Albemarle S^{t 3}