TALBOT3591

Sloperton, September 25^h
1837.

Thank you, my dear Talbot, for your notices from and of the Pells.¹ I should not ask a better Clerk of them than yourself (as far as I am concerned) seeing that you know exactly the sort of things I should wish extracted from them. I had a visit, however, yesterday from a great Publisher (coming to offer me £ 1500, which alack, I cannot accept) and, on my mentioning the work to him, he undertook to get it for me, saying, what I hope is true, that it does not extend beyond two volumes.² When do you all come down? I trust soon – as I long, though at the same time, tremble to see Lady Elisabeth.³ My best love to her and your sisters. ⁴

Ever truly yours
Thomas Moore

Mrs Talbot⁵ came and went the other day like summer lightning without our having more than a mere glimpse of her – Bowles⁶ being in the depth of an early dinner with us, at the time.

[address panel:]
Henry F. Talbot. Esq^re
31 Sackville Street