TALBOT597

My dear Talbot,

I enclose your Carmen Laureatum, ¹ together with a prize-book: why did you not tell me, that it was your 3^d copy? Preston’s illness gave a false alarm: the Scarlatina ceased entirely with Ward’s removal. God bless you! I hope you will like your prize, for its own sake and mine: for I am,

with truest affection

Yours

Geo Butler.

Harrow, ²

6 Dec^r 1813.

Jan–Dec
1813.
Dec. 6. 1813.