TALBOT736

Sackville Street ¹

28^th December 1816

Thank you, Carissimo, ² for the ses of the Moon, ³ but that letter was so litured ⁴ I began to think the Winter must have been mucho perfusus ⁵ tempora Bacccho. ⁶ I am charmed to hear of your incipient reformation, chi commincia bene ha la metà dell’opera, ⁷ as Guerini has it <illegilbe> Your Box is come from Castleford, ⁸ it is untouched, & shall remain so. –

Your Mosses are gone long ago. I have not heard yet of any astronomer ⁹ to be had.

I am happy to tell you I understood your Greek perfectly, I mean in the first letter about the Moon & Venus. ¹⁰ Send me some more very easy.

Addiò ¹¹

State sano e ricordativi di Me ¹²

W. H. F. Talbot
Burley ¹³