TALBOT633

Castleford – ¹
Nov. 3^d 1815.

My Dear M^r Feilding,

I received the Gun & the Desk this morning: The latter will do perfectly well. I have been buying stationery for it at Pontefract today. – M^r Barnes ² has settled that I shall want the following books –

Homer – I have got the Iliad, but I want the Odyssey also –

Horace – I have got.

Sophocles – I have not got.

Juvenal – I have got.

Cicero de Officiis – I have got.

– Select Orations – I have not got.

Sallust. I have not got.

Tacitus. ³ I have got a part of his works, namely his life of Agricola, & his book “de moribus Germanorum” but I want all his works, & do not know whether they can be purchased without the abovementioned. –

Bonnycastle’s ⁴ Arithmetic, Astronomy, & Algebra. of which I have none, except perhaps the [illegible deletion] Astronomy.

Gisbourne’s Survey, ⁵ which I have.

Common Prayer Book.

Common Place Book, after the plan of Locke, which M^r Barnes thinks will be useful such as those published by Hamilton & Co. Shakespeare’s Head, Beech Street.⁶ – If it is inconvenient to get it there, we can get it made at Pontefract, or make it ourselves here: – If you do send it, rather send a thin one. –

N.B. I suppose all the new books had better be in boards –

I remain, Y^rs Affec^tly –
WHFTalbot.

Capt. Feilding
31 Sackville S^t
London