TALBOT3041

Castle Combe
January 15

Dear Talbot.

Much obliged for your gratulations ¹ – We will drive with you with pleasure on Tuesday next, should that day suit you – and if I hear nothing further from you, shall conclude it does – But, unless the weather should prove desperately bad we will not trouble you for a dormitory, but return at night. The Elections are going on favourably, I think. All the trumps have turned up for us, hitherto, at least; But I am quaking for Middlesex & South Hants, in both of which the Tories are making desperate efforts to oust Hume & Palmerston. ²

Stanley’s ³ speech is a dishonest one, I think. Can anything be more despicable than for a man of his parts to condescend to apply the Tory Catchwords, of Destructive – Factions opposition & so forth & to those who would remodel that Juggernaut the Irish Church, and refuse their confidence to Joseph [illegible] He has neither tact nor taste – that is clear.

Ever your’s [sic]
G. Poulett Scrope

We shall presume your dinner hour to be six or a quarter after

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Chippenham January fifteen 1835
W. F. Talbot Esq^r.
Lacock Abbey
G Poulet Scrope