TALBOT336

16 June.
S. S^{t 1}

My dear Henry,

I have subscribed for you to the Zoological Society - £5ּ0ּ0 - & you are to pay £2 a year - I hope you approve - There is a very pretty part of the Regents Park appropriated, & I dare say in time it will do very well - I am anxious to hear something of your plans: Poor Lemon ² talks of going abroad & is in want of some one to travel with. You would suit him very well I think having the same pursuits & tastes - he is totally indifferent as to where he goes I believe - but mentioned Spain - It is impossible not to wish to do every thing in ones power for him now - & if you ever have I should urge your proposing to go with him - but with the uncertainty about his Plans & yours & the distance I fear we shall not be able to manage it - He is just now in Cornwall. Your Mother ³ gets better - but she will be a long time before she returns to her usual spirits - it has been a sad year for us all. L^d Winchilsea ⁴ is certainly better for the warm weather - & will therefore last longer than I expected, how long it is impossible to say - what we are to do I cannot tell you. if he remains in Town we must fix ourselves somewhere new if he should be able to go to the Sea we must do the same - if it ends soon we should go over the water on our way to Paris - where would depend on the Time of the Event occuring [sic] & your plans This seems to be exactly what I said in my last which I have just recollected. L^d Lansdowne ⁵ is brother of his Earl - we went to Richmond yesterday to dine with them en famille. ⁶ it is a most beautiful place being the House on the Hill & a garden down to the river edge communicating under the road, with the upper one - it was a fine day & the Girls were enchanted - The elections go on pretty favorably on the whole - M^r Grossett ⁷ has run away from Chippenham ⁸ - frightened by a candidate arriving followed by 3 waggons full of wool which he gave away to the workmen saying he would buy it back as soon as it had become Cloth - L^d L. had a panic about Calne ⁹ but it was settled. Fazakerly ¹⁰ is come in for Lincoln at the Head of the Poll, & I hope is fixed there - I have rec^d a very complimentary & I dare say a very true account of the depth of your Hieroglyphic lore from San Quintino ¹¹ - he seems quite charmed with you.

Poor Harriet Payson's pretty daughter Caroline is an almost hopeless state, & the eldest has very near died of an attack of putrid sore Throat - Lady Corks daughter ¹² is dead of small Pox after vaccination by Jenner & several others have died also - quantities have had it so pray do not willfully go in the way of small Pox.

G & L Almighty bless you
C. F

we are all yearning for a Villa