TALBOT599

Harrow ¹
March 10. 1814.

My dear Mamma,

I am much obliged to you for the things you sent me yesterday – you cannot think how sorry I am, that I am not in Town, for I should have had such pleasure, in viewing those numerous books of Engravings, which were in M^r Shaws Library. I see that the sale finishes tomorrow. Do you remember that a little while ago, you promised to buy me a Hortus siccus, ² when you should meet with a nice one? I wish you could buy me the one, N^o 522. if it is cheap. I have no idea, what those sort of things cost, though I should not suppose, that brokers or those sort of people would value them very highly. – The weather is very curious; it is now snowing fast, as it has done regularly every day. – I hear that an old woman has been put in prison for prophesying that when this weather ceases, the world is to be at an end.

Y^r Aff^te Son
WHFTalbot –

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A friend of mine, Charles Perceval,³ would be very much obliged to you M^r F. ⁴ to get for him, No 426, The Coin collector’s Guide: for, being a great antiquarian, he has set his heart upon it – He desires me to say, that he would give as much as a Guinea & a Half for it. –

Lady Elisabeth Feilding
31 Sackville Street
London