TALBOT5028

August 6[4?] 1844

My dear Talbot –

Though the drawings were familiar to us, we were delighted to get your beautiful book ¹ and to read (which I did aloud for both) your simply written and interesting preface. As I could not please myself in any of the trials I made to pen something for the Book, I am most glad that I did not send you any thing inferior at all – for, to have been in partnership with Sol without doing any thing worthy of the connexion would never have done for a poet - or rather would have done for me entirely.²

Many thanks to M^rs Talbot³ for thinking of the Clarendon for me –⁴ I have some Rushworths⁵ to send back as soon as I have an opportunity.

Y^rs ever truly
Thomas Moore