TALBOT4268

Sir /

I call^d in Sackville Street ¹ a Short time back, in the hope of finding you in London, (but was inform^d you where [sic] at Laycock,) to pay my most humble and respectfull duty, and to inform you Sir, of the fate of your Botanical Specimens, which my Son Will^{m 2} ship’d on Board the Ship Admiral Cockburn which I am sorry to say was totally totally lost in Torre Straights ³ with many of her Crew –

Sir on Looking over a Box of papers and Letters the other day I met with Several papers belonging to you, & perhaps would be as well in your own possession. I should feel great pleasure in bringing them to you, if you would be so Kind as to inform me, of your arrival in town, a line Sir address^d to

R Burden –

30 North Street (upper)
East India Road
Poplar

would very much oblige Sir, your Continued Faithfull H’ble and Devoted Servant
R^d Burden

Tuesday 1^st June /41

P.S.
I am Sir, still in the same Employment into which I was engaged on the 26^th Jan^y – 1838

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts

31. Sackville Street ⁴
London