TALBOT765

Saturday May 17, 1817 ¹

My Dear Henry

I have given Car & Hor ² leave to sit up till nine this Evening to look for Mercury, but I am afraid it will be a needle in a bottle of hay to them. M^r F's ³ Telescopes are at Watkins's ⁴ - to be taken care of - which do you wish for? The Night I intended to go to the Apostate there was no box to be had, it was so excessively full, & now I suppose I shall never see it, for Miss O'Neil broke a blood vessel last night after acting in it, & she is given over, Baillie told her a week ago this would happen if she persisted in acting.,⁵ However while there's Life there's Hope, but D^r You must hear Lord Erskine ⁶ sport Paradise regained, ⁷ he is entousiaste ⁸ about it. Tell me the Sequel of your melancholy Well story. I have met M^r Daunay ⁹ at Burley. ¹⁰ Lord Winchilsea ¹¹ & Gression[?] are going for a short time to Brussels to see the Fitz Geralds. ¹² Fulham Fulham is 4 miles from Town. I am going tomorrow with Lord & Lady Charlemont ¹³ & see Xtopher ¹⁴ & Lord Caulfeild ¹⁵ who is just placed there. M^r F. is at Eden Farm, ¹⁶ he went to have a Pigeon match with Bob Eden ¹⁷ &c Bob is just going to Cambridge

I wish you were going to Oxford

I never was at Murray's Lodge ¹⁸ You have never described your Garden nor room to me - I wish you would, & how your bookshelves are placed. Do you ride generally by yourself?

I hope you keep up your French & Italian. Tell me more what you do. & what you are reading with M^r Bonny. ¹⁹ Is it not Demosthenes? & perhaps Æschylus Horatia has been ill. Jane ²⁰ is in Town & L^y I - Julia ²¹ is come out

London May seventeen 1817 Auckland ²²
H^y- Fox - Talbot Esq^re
Normanton
Stamford -