TALBOT671

44 Pulteney St ¹
28 Jan^y

My dear Henry

I sent you a small microscope the other day which I should think you ought to receive about the same time as this letter. there is but one good optician here and the only magnifier I could find like your description belonged to this microscope, so I sent it, with its appurtenances, when screwed all together it is like this [illustration] but you may use it without the Brass tube x – I am afraid after all that there is not one magnifier of the great power which you wished for but in London, we will go to to [sic] my favourite shop Jones’s and there we can have choice this ^glass will help to pass the time till we meet – I can assure you I feel much pleasure at the thought of visiting you & your companion at Harrow. ² I donot [sic] know what he will do when you leave it – Jane Charry & Emma ³ arrived thursday [sic] & the 3 days have gone so fast that I can hardly believe so much has elapsed this is I think a sign of happiness, tho’ generally a source of regret, one always wishes happy days to be long ones. The seeds you sent me are sowd [sic] but Jane cannot tell whether any of them have vegetated tho’ they have been in the ground this long time. give my love to Kit ⁴ and tell him I intend writing to him very soon – I have seen several sights that [will?]⁵ be amusing to recount tho’ I am afraid my account will not be very intelligible, this paper is so bad I can scarcely write upon it. Jane scrapes all the old Walls with great perseverance

Aff^ly yours

M: L: T:

M^r Henry Talbot
Rev^d D^r Butlers ⁶
Harrow
Middlesex
Jan^ry 28^th 1815 ⁷