TALBOT679

Sackville Street ¹
January 15^th

My Dear Henry

It’s a mystery I cannot unravel, an enigma I cannot find out, a problem I cannot solve, why you don’t write to me. I really believe I have written you 3 letters since. In one ² I remember asking you a question about the Phrygian Sage, in another ³ telling you about your new Cousin at Lansdowne House ⁴ Since which you have one born at Melbury ⁵ & another at Deans Leaze. ⁶ No lack of cousins for Anno Domini ⁷ eighteen hundred & sixteen. I sent your Italian books too, which you have never acknowledged, In short I don’t know whats come to you in those northern regions. M^r F. ⁸ is at Middleton, where I should have met him, if I had been well enough, but I have had a petite Santé ⁹ lately. If you read the Morning Chronicle ¹⁰ you may have seen the Births of all these Cousins in it. I have likewise sent you regularly the Examiner. ¹¹ It is universally said that Princess Charlotte ¹² is to marry Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg ¹³ but it has not yet been communicated to M^rs Campbell ¹⁴ or Lady Ilchester. ¹⁵ I had a great mind to have sent you the last new Edinburgh Review & Quarterly ¹⁶ with the Italian books, but I thought very likely M^r Barnes ¹⁷ took them in. Does he? – Adiò Carissimo ¹⁸

Conservatevi ed amatemi ¹⁹

Caroline ²⁰ says you have not answered her French Letter

Will^m Henry Fox Talbot Esq^re
Rev^d M^r Barnes
Castleford
Ferrybridge
Yorkshire