TALBOT586

Sackville Street ¹
4^th March 1813

My Dear Henry

I have not written to you lately, having been in great affliction about Lady Carnarvon ² who has been some time most dangerously ill, & I fear is not likely to recover. I cannot find the key of Your Black Truck, Do you remember where you put it. The Blue Phosphorus Box I hunted for everywhere, at last Nurse More produced it out of one of the Closets up stairs, but as I have had no opportunity of getting the things you wished from Accum's,^<3> I do not send it, But will soon if you still want them, so let me know. What was that stuff you left in Papers, it looks like Saccharum Saturni, ³ I have put it by that nobody may be poisoned.

Jane ⁴ has sent you a little Microscope, shall I send it you? - M^r Feilding ⁵ is here & talks of going into Rutlandshire Monday He is this moment come back from the Levee. [Yo]ur⁶ Arum seeds are planted & placed in the Leads near the Kitchen Sky Light in hopes the warmth may bring them on

Evr y^rs aff^ly
E T F

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^r
Rev^d D^r Butler's ⁷
Harrow ⁸
Sackville St March 4. 1813 ⁹