TALBOT4874

Millburn¹
June 8

My Dear Charles

I wish you would get me from Deighton’s shop

Salmon’s Conic Sections, last Edition ²

Gregory’s examples, last Edition

and ask Deighton to send me the bill and I will send him a Post Office order.

Yesterday Sunday about noon there was a tremendous fire in Edinburgh in an Indian Rubber Manufactory – Notwithstanding the daylight the flames were very conspicuous from Millburn and rose 150 feet high being just behind a remarkably tall chimney which enabled me to measure or estimate their height.

Adieu Your aff^te.
father

The smoke formed a canopy in the sky over Edinburgh at least as high as Skiddaw or Snowdon.

Envelope:

C. H. Talbot Esq
Trin. Coll.
Cambridge