TALBOT769

Normanton, ¹
May 26^th 1817.

My Dear Mamma,

I think the Guardian is become more amusing. Drakard’s Stamford Newspaper ² copies it entire, & indeed it is a most fortunate thing for him, that this new paper has come forth, as the cessation of Cobbett’s Register ³ had reduced him to a terrible dilemma for political articles. I don’t see that either L^d Lansdowne or Ilchester ⁴ sent their proxies on the Catholic Question. You give me no news of Christopher. ⁵ If you had let C. & H. ⁶ sit up a quarter of an hour longer, they w^d have seen Mercury – You told me nothing in your last letter, about the telescopes. I want one very much. Yesterday I took a walk to Easton; ⁷ do you know it? You have thence a good view of the Fen, & I hope in clear weather to see Boston Church. I suppose you may see 100 churches at the least, from the top of the tower. How is Miss O’Neill? I have read the Apostate, ⁸ but do not comprehend the catastrophe: however I shall consider it again. M^r Bonney ⁹ will be obliged to go on the 9^th June, to his living at Coningsby ¹⁰ for ten days, & desires me to ask you what you wish me to do during that time – Coningsby is 50 miles from hence, & he says is the most wretched country he ever saw. I should like to go up to London for that time, or a little longer. I always have a great deal to do in London. However pray write to me soon concerning this. My seeds are thriving very well, & as to yours they are to be sent to Trevelyan. ¹¹ I am quite tired of your Centaur, pray adopt some other device –

Y^r Aff^te Son,
W. H. F. Talbot

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The Lady Elis^th Feilding
31 Sackville S^t
London
Stamford ¹²