TALBOT69

Lacock
Feb. 21 – 1869

My Dear Charles

I can leave the things with Mr Awdry if you wish it, but will it not do as well if I leave them in a sealed packet on the dining room table along with your letters and law reports? The packet would be quite safe. – The Secretary of the Law Reports ¹ has not answered my letter. I therefore conclude that it is all right and that no more of them will come. I expected to hear that you had paid a flying visit to Rome being now so near it. If you return by the Brenner and Munich, perhaps I might manage to meet you at Munich as I think of travelling by that line, and we might go from Munich to see the quarries of Solenhofen ² where all the wonderful fossils are formed –I think of starting early in March.

Your aff^te
Father