TALBOT3753

15 November

My Dear Henry

I want to know what answer M^r King ¹ has sent you, he is at Brighton. I see you are for it next year, tho’ you escape being High Sheriff this. M^r Leighton ² has just left your Infusoria here, I have not seen it yet being waiting for Caroline ³ to come down stairs to assist at the opening. She is anxious you should be at the Christening, ⁴ but Lord V. ⁵ is so unwell that he will not hear of fixing any time, tho’ I who am God Mother have declared I cannot stay on here for ever.

Lord V. is not half so well as when he <came?> ⁶ from Buxton. To day it is a dense yellow fog – There is no weather in the Country however bad that can compare with it in dismalness. I really think I must find some better climate to pass the depth of winter in, next year. For rhumatic <sic> constitutions the Trial is too great.

aff y^rs

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Henry