TALBOT660

Sackville Street ¹

17^th August

My Dearest Darling Boy

I do acknowledge having received a nice long Letter ² from you two days ago, & another to day. Yours are very much to my taste because they give me such an exact idea of all you are about & what you are thinking of, which is answering the principal purpose of a Letter.

You seem to be very happy where you are, & I am glad your time is so well filled up as not to require shooting.

I am surprized you have found that quotation ³ because it has been pronounced by the greatest Critics to be no where.

I was yesterday at Holland House, ⁴ Lord H. ⁵ is engaged in the pursuit of a Tutor & therefore sympathized with me, in the various distresses & disappointments of such a Chace.

Pray ask your Aunt Mary ⁶ to answer my question ab^t the abode & terms of her Dancing Mistress, for as we shall probably be in town till the end of September or beginning of October, I intend your Sisters ⁷ to learn. Don’t be afraid of having nothing to tell me in your next Letter, all your daily occupations & thoughts upon them, is the greatest pleasure to me to know. I congratulate you on y^r first country ride, I wonder you were not more tired –

Ever aff^ly yours

E.

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^r
Penrice Castle
Swansea
Glamorgan
I hope this wont go to Glasgow. ⁸