TALBOT598

Harrow ¹
Feb: 23^d 1814

My dear Mamma,

The Duke's Son you asked me about is Lord Cha^s Murray ^<2>- He is not come back yet. He went, I am told, to Portsmouth, and applied to some ship agent, to procure him a passage to America; but finding that the man had some suspicions of him; he absconded from Portsmouth; and when his tutor arrived there, which he did as soon as he could; Lord Charles was gone again - I believe he is now in town, & it is reported that he is very ill: What his motives were, for taking such a step, I can not tell - A Great many boys have run away this time; but most of them have come back again. I think I am better since I came here: I have the toothache now and then, but it does not stay long. I should like any nice Pocketbook - Pray send me my Account Book.

Y^r Aff^te Son
WHFTalbot . . . . . . . . . .

NB I speak on Thursday 5 May: (At least most likely so) - My speech was set yesterday; so I have 10 weeks, 2 days to study it in.

Lady Elisabeth Feilding
31 Sackville Street
London