TALBOT663

Sackville Street ¹
Saturday August 26^th

My Dear Henry

If you do not write oftener I must certainly send for you by Habeas Corpus ² & remove your Body from the Principality of Wales ³, as it seems to prove a Capua to you, & so to enervate your right hand, as to prevent your continuing those communications which give me so much pleasure. I have not been well this week, which makes me miss your Letters the more. Besides I want very particularly to know about your health, as I remember it was just this time last year at Penrice ⁴ & this time eight years ago at Plymouth that you were in a state of déperissement ⁵ which makes me think the Sea Tide in the D og days, does not agree with you, however it may in other parts of the year. Have you been again on Kit’s ⁶ Poney? & with as much success? I am writing this on the Sofa, as I cannot sit up to write, having a bad head ach [sic] – I hope you can read it. Car & Hor ⁷ are still at Barming. Mr. F. ⁸ goes next week to Sprotborough ⁹ for Partridge Shooting – Sir George Paul ¹⁰ is going to Paris for a week

God Bless you My Dearest & write directly

M^r H^y Talbot Esq^r
Penrice Castle
Swansea