TALBOT7056

Bowood ¹
Sunday 5

My dear Henry

I will come to Lacock as soon as I can get off after breakfast on Wednesday – we can start together Thursday morning if you are going to town – I going to Melbury. ²

I got your letter from Val de [Pesio?] but I did not know you were going to stay there Did you find Fritillaria lutea Jane ³ told me where [Pesio?] was I never heard of it. She is I think going to winter at Nice but Emma ⁴ will tell us.

What beautiful clear evenings we have, I hope you are looking out for falling stars – in which I take great interest as one of the anomalies of creation.

The Pinetum here will soon be very fine – the soil seems so good for Pines. I am sure some reputed species are but varieties. Abies ⁵ [Pichta?], Fraseri, amabilis, & perhaps balsamea are too near.

I shewed your letter to L^d Lansdowne ⁶ who said Cardwell ⁷ would certainly pay attention to any Memorial emanating from Liverpool. Sir David Dundas ⁸ who is here said he thought the Attorney General would be a better person to apply to. The case seems very hard but lawyers are harder.

Have you read the life of Dalton? ⁹ it seems interesting. Can you tell me how the Romans cast up an addition sum? I ask everybody I meet but can get no satisfactory answer. If I did I should ask the same of their powers of subtraction u.s.w. ¹⁰ as the Germans put it. I hope Ela ¹¹ & all are well & Charley ¹² I suppose not at home.

Yr^s
W F S

[envleope:]
H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham