TALBOT752

February 17 1817 ¹

My Dear Henry

Did you particularly wish to move the Curtisia Fagineæ or Assagay Tree, because if so I will save some of the seeds of it for you, & will not send any to Melbury ² till I have y^r answer.

Lady Bath ³ was in a hurry because she is coming to town & wanted them to be planted before she left Longleat

I dont want L^d Arden, ⁴ if he is safe, that's well. M^r Bonney's ⁵ Father was once very kind to Lord Westmorland's Father, ⁶ before he came to the title - it was many years ago at Bath. I am not sure whether it was not their Grandfather's but in short it is from some sort of family gratitude Lord W - gave M^r B - the living of Cliffe.

Do tell me who the Honorable M^rs Bland, ⁷ could have been before she married. You have been at Kippax ⁸ I believe. I send you some Ixias enclosed. The Mud boots I hope are received. Nathan[?] explains Angular Motion to be a kind of compound motion composed of a circular & a rectilinear motion, like the wheel of a coach. (Not that I see why that should be called angular) - again, he says the angular motions of revolving bodies, are reciprocally proportional to their periodic times. - Again, angular motion is the motion of a body which moves circularly about a point, or the variation in the angle described by a line connecting the a body with the centre about which it moves. Thus a pendulum has an angular motion about its centre & the planets have an angular motion about the Sun.