TALBOT704

Castleford, ¹
29^th June, 1816.

My Dear Mamma,

Pray send me some bark from Apothecaries Hall, ² for I don’t think what I get here is at all good.

I use the Gargle frequently; whether it does me any good or not, I don’t know. A Son of M^r Baring’s is coming here in a few days – I am glad to find that perhaps Nuttall will not return, & that if he does it will not be for more than a month. My Garden is not so gay as I expected: first because the nurserymen sold me wrong plants, & bad roots of right plants – & secondly because they have not been taken any care of during my absence. Nevertheless there are some pretty things. Give my love to Car. & Hor. ³ & tell them I don’t want my Fern here. When will my clothes come from France? I want two new books. namely –

Æschines contrà Ctesiphentem, Demosthenes de Coronâ, ⁴ } which are usually bound together

and Xenophon’s Memorabilia. ⁵

What news of my German Pocketbook? I rode to Tadcaster ⁶ the other day, which is twenty six miles.

and remain, Y^r Aff^te Son
W. H. F. T. –

Gryphs – conundrum.

Why is a clever man called a y z ?

The Lady E. Feilding
31 Sackville Street
London