TALBOT705

Castleford, ¹

July 7^th 1816.

My Dear Mamma,

M^r Barnes ² has got a new pupil, who came last Tuesday. His name is Baring, ³ he was one of my schoolfellows at Harrow. ⁴ I knew very little of him then, but I like him very well. He has been at Geneva for the last year, and is lately returned. – The Lily you sent is a Pancratium, I think the Illyricum – but it is certainly some Pancratium. Pray hunt for a scrap of paper which must be lying on the library table, with prices of French provisions &c. &c. – and send it to me for M^r Barnes’s edification.

The weather is quite lacrymose, one is wet through so sure as one takes a walk.

I remain
Y^r Aff^te Son

W H F T.

Pray send me some of the Squibs you have been collecting for the last month, that I may read them over again, (not forgetting the parody of “Gray’s Elegy”. ⁵ I will take the utmost care of them.

Lady Elis. Feilding
31 Sakcville <sic> S^t
London