TALBOT5033

Sloperton. ¹
August 10 9^th
1844

My dear Talbot–

You have hit upon the very thing – at least as far as I am concerned. New things (at least professing to be new) are sure to be carped at, and this it was – the fear and consciousness of this – that paralyzed every effort I made to do something for you. But this new suggestion of yours removes every difficulty and I shall now have all the honour and glory of being solarized in your company without being at the same time criticised for my “parts of speech.”²

Let me know if it is any particular kind of paper I must (certainly not the kind I am writing on now) that I must transcribe the two Melodies upon.

Y^rs ever
T.M.

It was by a casualty I was prevented from answering you yesterday