TALBOT574

Harrow ¹
June 27. 1812

My dear Mamma,

I have been extremely busy lately and all my leisure time has been employed in playing at cricket or reading, so I have not yet answered your two letters - My prize was a pretty little Pindar - All the prizes I get, I will If I can, choose a classic author; - I think I shall be very happy without chemistry in the Holidays, which I long for; it only wants a month to them; Next Speechday is next Thursday July 2^d - Tell me the chief things D^r Beddoes ² warns schoolboys of. Keep the print of Laycock Abbey for me to see - Was L^d Lansdowne ³ much hurt? - At present all I can find out is that Martin and Gordon (a monitor) are going, the first to Ham Court 6 miles from Malvern⁴ and the other to Worcester; they think by the coach; I will write to you my plans for going with them some other day - give the enclosed Map of Germany to Jane, ⁵ as a specimen of our maps at Harrow; the enclosed was done by a good map doer;*

Goodbye.

Y^r Aff^te Son
W.H.F. Talbot

* R. Dewing: ⁶ between 15 and 16.
then in the under Shell ⁷

Lady Elisabeth Feilding
Malvern
Worcester