TALBOT502

Sackville Street ¹
May 19^th 1809

My Dear Henry

I wonder very much why you have not written to me once since you returned to school. Pray let me know what the reason is, & how you like bathing in the Month of May, & how it likes you. Jane Talbot ² is in town, she came to have some teeth drawn by M^r Spence. Betty Vicary ³ has been extremely ill, but D^r Blanc has recovered her at last. I am going to bathe Caroline ⁴ in a large tin bath, which will not be so pleasant as the Sea. I enclose you a letter from Penrice, ⁵ I suppose it is from your Cousin Mary. ⁶ London is so hot it is quite odious, I am glad you are in a cooler place

Believe me your aff^te
E Feilding

London May Twentieth 1809 [illegible] Winchilsea ⁷
W. H. F. Talbot
at the Rev^d M^r Hooker's ⁸
Rotting Dean ⁹
Brighton
Sackville S^t May 19. 1809. ¹⁰