TALBOT3788

Brighton
Sunday

Dear Henry

I am as much comforted by the Athenæum ¹ & the Literary Gazette ² as the Nature of the circumstances admit of, but I shall ever wish it had been otherwise. This is at least the second time the same sort of thing has happened,³ how I do wish it might operate in future as a spur to make you do yourself justice. Few things would give me more pleasure than to have you known & prized in the scientific world as Nature when she gave you those talents intended you should be, as for the Mundane world that is too insignificant to care about.

Another of the few things I still care about, I have long thought of mentioning, & may as well do so now, & have it off my mind. If you should this time have a boy, it would be a great satisfaction to me that you should not only give it the name of Charles, as you once intended, but add Feilding as Caroline ⁴ wished to have done but was prevented as you know by the perverseness of Lord M^t E.⁵ There are so many Talbots about the world that your son should certainly have some name besides a X^tian one to distinguish him from the multitude of Lord Talbots’ sons & Lord Shrewsbury’s ⁶ nephews, besides the Irish branch. I only mentioned Sherrington ⁷ with that view, but the other would give pleasure to your sisters as well as to me, and I don’t immediately perceive any objection.

Affly Yrs my Dearest
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