TALBOT519

Burley ¹
October 17^th

My Dear Henry

I am very sorry to hear it will be so long before M^r Hooker ² will have a vacancy for your Uncle John ³. I wish you would write oftener, as I do not like being more than a week befo without hearing from you. We went yesterday to Belvoir Castle, the Duke of Rutland's ⁴. It is an irregular Gothic Castle, on the top of a steep sugarloaf hill, in the middle of a wide plain. Pray keep some of your beautiful opaque pebbles & Cornelians for me. Are they as pretty as Abbotsbury pebbles? That description of Dulcinée ⁵ is very diverting from its pompous exaggerat[ion]⁶ M^r Feilding ⁷ came here last Thursday from Cumberland, He & Lord Winchilsea ⁸ desire their love to you.

I am your aff^te
E T Feilding

You may enclose you next to Lord Winchilsea, Burley Stamford -

Stamford Oct^r Eighteenth Per Winchilsea

M^r H^y Talbot
at the Rev^d D^r Hooker's
Rotting Dean ⁹
Brighton
Burley Oct 17. 1810 ¹⁰