TALBOT4972

London

23 March 1844

My Dear Mother

I called on Stilwell ¹ today – He told me he wrote to you yesterday –

As you did not dissent, you are held to have consented to the Government measure, which is what you intended: so all is right.

There is indeed a description of 3½ per Cent Stock, with respect to which the reverse rule holds good, but you have none of that stock –

I send you in a separate cover, the resolutions of the House of Commons on that subject – the reading of which will tend to the edification of all who study finance at M^t Edgcumbe, ² and like to dive into its mysteries.

Your aff^te

Henry