TALBOT488

Old Burlington Street ¹
May 23

My dear Nephew

I am really very sorry to hear you are so unwell but as for your earache I think I can tell you a remedy for it viz. Take the heart of an onion roast it & put into your ear as hot as you can bear it & then toast a piece of bread wrap it in flannel or linen & fold it round your ear Pray do this & I hope soon to hear you

I will tell you how I used to amuse myself at school I took a piece of Paper & wrote how many days it was to the holidays thus –

Happy days

Sunday	1	8	15	22
Monday	2	9	16	23
Tuesday	3	10	17	24
Wednesday	4	11	18
Thursday	5	12	19
Friday	6	13	20
Saturday	7	14	21

The four last I have scratched out in order to shew you how to do it yourself. They are going to a Masquerade or two or perhaps three to night M^r Feilding ² has a dress like this. [illustration]

I have got several new [illegible] ³ which you shall see when you come home.

I am your very Affectionate Uncle
W T H F S

London May twenty four 1808
Master Talbot
M^r Hooker’s ⁴
Rottingdean
Brighton
Ilchester