TALBOT72

Moreton ¹

Thursday evening

My dear Henry

I forgot to tell you there is a mine of books in the inner room at Stinsford ² tho' perhaps you knew it. I am not sure whether any to your taste, tho' there are many there to mine. Tu vois que je m'occupe de toi. ³ You both looked very winterish as we parted from you, winding your way along that dreary heath fit haunt for the Witches in Macbeth. This is the most chearful house I have been in since I returned to England, they somehow contrive by dint of animal spirits to exclude the gloom of the climate which penetrates into our Constitutions & is edacious ⁴of all our pleasures

Adio carissimo ⁵ If you have nothing else to do you may as well write to M^r M.

William Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r
Lady Susan O'Brien's
Stinsford