TALBOT504

Rottingdean ¹
June 4^th 1809

My Dear Mamma

I am very happy here. M^r Hooker ² praises me very much he says I have done exercises for a whole month without his correcting a single word which he never did to any other boy before; my lessons are very easy. I am glad to come back to you so soon as the 20^th of this month it is only 2 weeks and 2 days more. next halfyear I expect to begin Ovids Metamorphoses & Cornelius Nepos. ³ I have a kind of a Latin interpretation in Ovid by putting it in easier Latin my lessons are therefore easier to me than to the rest of the boys in my class who have got none. I shall have done Hall’s Contemplations ⁴ over for the first time in October 1810, according to my reckoning. I do Selectæ è Veteri ⁵ for Sunday Translations now, & Selectæ è Profanis ⁶ for Tuesday. Ovid we do in the afternoon on working days. one day I was 4^th head boy in the School. I am now 8^th. I hurt my arm the day before yesterday very much but it is quite well now. send my love to Betty, M^r F, Caroline & Aunt Louisa, & Lord Henry ⁷ – tell me who the nursemaid is your affectionate son

W. H. F. Talbot.

Lady E. Feilding
31 Sackville Street
London