TALBOT608

Lowther Castle ¹
18^th August

My Dear Henry

I wish you would write to me & tell me your adventures since you left Melbury. ² I saw so many pretty weeds at Sprotborough ³ that I could not help thinking of you every minute & about here there grows wild a very pretty bright purple Geranium or rather I believe it is a Pelargonium: I gathered a bit to enclose to you, but it withered before I had time to desiccate it. This is a most magnificent Gothic structure, the character is preserved throughout, even to the minutest furniture & I sleep in a bed in the shape of a tomb in Henry 7^ths Chapel.

I went to day to see Ulls Water, ⁴ it is a beautiful Lake, surrounded by fine Mountain Scenery. I have not been to see any Places except Thoresby, Lord Manvers's, ⁵ & Clumber, the Duke of Newcastle's. ⁶ Desire your Aunt Mary ⁷ to write to me

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Henry Talbot
18 Aug. 1814 ⁹