TALBOT652

Harrow ¹
June 25^th 1815.

My Dear Mamma,

I mean, that I wish you would send me any accounts, not to be found in the Newspapers, which you obtain from so many sources in London. M^r Forbes has two sons here, & has sent them two expresses lately, with the News, the instant it arrived in Town; – by which he has greatly obliged the whole school. I think the loss we have sustained, must be overrated; – the official returns have not been received yet, have they? – I knew Tom Strangways ² was severely wounded, but asked you for the particulars, if you know any… Many severe losses have happened to some of my schoolfellows – Gunning has lost his brother: so has Blackman, – Trevor, his uncle, & L^d Garlies’s ³ uncle wounded. We had a Holiday for the Victory, ⁴ partly I suppose to console us, as well as to rejoice in. – Pray did not you know L^d Fitzroy Somerset? ⁵ – I think Parliament premature in rewarding L^d Wellington; ⁶ tho’ it is a great proof of the Confidence we repose in Him. – I never recollect the Newspaper’s so interesting, not even last year. – Did the Personages who chose to remain in Paris at Buonapartes return, ⁷ since come to England, or are they there now? – If so, I think they are in a “parenthesis”. – What do you think of the pun on “La belle Alliance”.⁸ I think it will not take. The Emperor of Austria ⁹ & his Czarship of Russia, ¹⁰ will come a day after the Fair, which perhaps they intended. – Do you think Buonaparte will make a stand at Laon? ¹¹ If so: it is the turn of the Russians & Austrians to fight him; – [illegible deletion] –

26^th Two. Oclock:

I have just heard the Happy News. I hope it is True, though I have not heard on what authority it rests. – I suppose they will cut his head off now; – at least if they don’t, they deserve to lose their own. – I was somewhat surprized to see Christopher ¹² yesterday, not having heard a word of him since he left Town, although I often enquired. He is in plenty of Time for his Trial, & I hope will not get in the lower on Account of his Absence. – I have rehearsed my speech to D^r Butler: ¹³ three times. The Action he uses, is I think much too theatrical, shaking the Head, &c &c.

I remain Y^rAff^te Son
W. H. F. Talbot

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The Lady Elisabeth Feilding
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London