Harrow 1
Sept. 21 – 1811
My dear Mamma,
There are about seventeen new boys come I believe. I do not know how to describe my study to you, it is very snug & very convenient, it has a bookcase thus: [illustration] I fill the top shelf with anything, to put it out of the way; The comet had past its perihelion before it was visible, I think: it has now been visible to me a fortnight and has moved thus
| xxxxx | A | being Sept. 6. |
| xx | B. | being Sept 11– |
| CBA | C. | Sept. 19 – |
Today is a whole holiday, so I have some time – I find fitting up my study is an expensive job, I have already expended about 22 shillings & I shall have to pay perhaps more. I intend to write to Mr F 2 today so I must conclude –
Yr affte Son
W. H F Talbot
I do not remember having put the interjection O! if you will write me back my Latin, I will translate it properly – The first is Thus. Here comes jalop an extraordinary medicine
Rt Honble Lady Elizabeth [sic] Feilding
Penrice Castle
near Swansea
Glamorgan
[enclosure]
to direct his attention, as he is already eagerly disposed to attack it.
Please cite as “TALBOT547,” in Ɛpsilon: accessed on