TALBOT514

Rottingdean ¹
Sept^ber 2^nd 1810

My Dear M^r Feilding,

I would have written to you sooner only I wrote such a long letter to Mamma, ² that I had nothing more to say, for I do not like to write the same thing twice: but now I have plenty to say to you. About 5 o’clock Monday morning Burrowes got up & dressed himself, & took his Bible & two story books under his arm, & run away as fast as he could to Brighton where he tried to sell his books but nobody would buy them, he bought some gingerbread, & run on; at Preston he met a turnpike man, who gave him a good breakfast, & told him that he had a coach with four horses coming which would carry him gratis to London, supposing that whoever was his master (for he had told him that he had run away from school) would take four horses for greater expedition. So He staid there till M^r Hooker ³ caught him & brought him back. I am very tired it is so dreadfully hot –

Your affectionate Son –
W. H. F. Talbot

Capt. Feilding
Burley
Stamford