TALBOT6637

Dummer house ¹

Dear Papa

I pos I hope you are quite well the poor little fusia you sent me lost all its leaves and I thought it was deat but wes yesterday I discovered it had some tiny red shoots all over it which were so small that they could only have just shot forth. P Dear Papa I should be very much obliged to you If you would give me some more money M^r Williams ² told me to write ask you as he says I have spent more than I had

I am your dutiful son

Charles Henry Talbot

W H Fox Talbot Esq
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts