TALBOT8038

Feb^y 2. 1860
48 Camden St. N.W.

My dear Sir,

In consequence of the absence of M^r [Grote?] from Town it was impossible to get the prescribed form filled up until yesterday. I then forwarded it to D^r Guest of Sanford Park. It will then go to D^r Bosworth at Oxford who will forward it to you, and I w^d ask you kindly to send it on to "John T. Graves Esq^r

29 Grosvenor Place South
Cheltenham"

Although one of the Secretaries of the Philological Society, I have from the first made it distinctly known that I could do little for the Society in that capacity, and that the chief burden must fall on my colleague who accepted the post with that understanding: I therefore cannot speak with any accuracy, until I see him or hear from him; but I believe the numbers of the Society to be somewhat short of 100. My feeling t is that the Council would be only too glad of your offer. Did you ever discover who the author of the outrageously ignorant and unjust article in the Quarterly was. I was once told that the late M^r Garnett was, but I do not believe it.

Yours very truly
T. Hewitt Key

H. Fox Talbot Esq^r

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esq.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
[annotated on recto by WHFT:]
Prof^r Key'