TALBOT546

Penrice Castle ¹
Sep^r 16^th 1811

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I was very much amused with your Observations ³ on the Comet ⁴ of which I think you have not made the tail spread enough, it is more so [illustration] than so [illustration] as you have made it. But the tail has perhaps encreased [sic] since then, as it becomes more visible after the Comet has passed its perihelion, from not being lost in the superior brightness of the Sun. Pray describe your Study to me, & tell me if it has a bookcase in it. Are there many new boys?

Here is the Inscription (which we could not recollect) for the Apartment in Chepstow Castle, ⁵ where Harry Marten, ⁶ one of the Regicides of Charles 1^st was confined

For thirty years secluded from Mankind
Here Marten lingered. Often have these Walls
Echoed his footsteps, as with even tread
He paced around his prison. Not to him
Did Nature's fair varieties exist,
He never saw the Sun's delightful beams,
Save when thro' yon high bars he pour'd a sad
And broken splendor.

We returned from Margam ⁷ last Saturday, I enjoyed the hot weather there excessively, The Nights were quite Italian & We walked out till one o'clock in the Morning amidst the perfume of the Orange Trees.

Te validissime diligo ⁸
E T Feilding

I found out your medical Sentences, all but the in ^terjection interjection O! which seemed to be misplaced for the English sense

W. H. F. Talbot Esq^r
Rev^d D^r Butler's ⁹
Harrow ¹⁰
Middlesex
Penrice Sept. 16. 1811 ¹¹