TALBOT802

[written on the same sheet as one from Capt Feilding - see ]

Sackville Street ¹
May 20^th

Mein theureste Sohn ²

We approve very much of your schemes & I am delighted you should do what you like, if you are sure of what that is. Let me know what day you will be in town, that your room may be got ready for you. M^r Feilding ³ is gone down to Eden Farm, ⁴ Lady Auckland ⁵ having died almost suddenly of a Paralytic attack, & they are all in great distress. Caroline & Horatia ⁶ are to return tomorrow to take up their abode again within the smoky precincts of St James', They are very sorry to leave their villa. ⁷

The Queen ⁸ is supposed to be certainly dying, nothing is more probable. She has a very great horror of death & cannot bear that anybody should think her in danger. There are great squabbles going on in the Royal Family about who is to have the care of the King, & the motive seems rather a disgraceful one, tho' very obvious. I suppose you will visit your unknown botanical friend in Yorkshire

Vale & me ama ⁹

M^lle Du Bois returns to France next week & I shall be without a Governess for nearly a Month as the new one cannot come till the 22^d June, I am afraid I shall be very much bored. I have established them with a Latin Master which will help to fill up their time. Horatia says already she wishes there were no such things invented as Music & Governesses It They must be for the express purpose of tormenting little girls

W. Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r
Trinity College
Cambridge