TALBOT823

Lowther ¹
9 Oct^r

My dear Henry -

You are by this time I conclude settled at Cambridge ² - having had by your Mothers ³ accounts a very pleasant Tour - you were fortunate in the season there never was so fine a summer known in these parts - I am proceeding on a Tour also but have not chosen so good a season quite to [illegible] I am going as far as Drumlanrig ⁴ & as neither Copley ⁵ or I have ever seen either of them, we think of going by Glasgow & Edin^gh all this I think I told you before. I shall be delayed longer in the North than I expected & it will be the end of November before I visit you at Cambr - but I hope to hear from you in the mean time that M^r Bonney's ⁶ predictions have been fulfilled, & that you have found your sejour ⁷ more agreeable, & your society more sought after by the sort of people with whom you w^d like to live. I am anxious to hear you feel comfortably settled again. Is there anything you want? - You have no idea how disagreeably high the spiritf of party runs in these counties - it is particularly unpleasant to me, linked as I am to them both by the ties of friendship - however I have got through it very well, & on Wednesday I set forth - direct to me at Carlisle from whence my letters will be forwarded to me. I have been often struck with the view you mention of the mountains about the lakes from the Carlisle Road - it is particularly fine about 2 miles from Penrith ⁸ - I went to the Moors yesterday but the birds were so wild I did not get a single shot - en revanche ⁹ I killed 11 brace of Partridges in my way home - missing only 3 or 4 shots - I expect at the Duke of B. ¹⁰ to get some famous black game shooting of which I shall send you an account - Pray write to me & Believe me

Y^r most aff^e Friend
C.F.

We think of going among the Islands & to Lough [sic] Lomond in a very unromantic but very convenient way, a steam boat. From Glasgow to Inverary you go in 12 hours which used to be an amazing operation -

Penrith October Eleven 1818 Free H.C. Lowther ¹¹
Henry Talbot Esq^r
Trin: Coll:
Cambridge