TALBOT2856

Tuesday

My Dear Henry

I am so glad to find from Lord Althorp ¹ that you are to have longer Holydays [sic] than usual, & that we shall possess you longer than I raised my hopes to. I advise you to come down Friday instead of Saturday because then the carriage can go to meet you at Melksham, ² but Saturday M^r F. ³ goes for his Douche to Bath, which he does 3 times a week with great effect. He hopes you will bring down with you the Geographical Journal you took with you. a rumour has reached my ear that you found again the eleven volumes ⁴ missing last winter out of y^r room in Sackville Street ⁵ – if so you should have mentioned it, as some of them were ours, & the set spoilt of course & the odd volumes consigned to the Housekeepers room I should be very glad to know they were found or any of them, or which of them. Fanny could tell I suppose where they were concealed. and bring down that Yuley [sic]Pamphlet

Aff y^rs
EF

If Emily Murray ⁶ is in town ask her for one of her printed papers – I want to shew it to the Overseer he never heard of it he says – Pray bring me some shoes Melnotte will send to you

If M^r Heale ⁷ has not the Italian [Flowing?] Ash I can get it at Southampton when we embark, it was owing to the tree having been so long dead that it happened.

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