TALBOT835

Sprotbro' ¹.
27. Nov^r

My dearest Henry -

Your letter has just reached me as I am setting out for Burley ² - where I shall remain in the neighbourhood about ten days so that in short you may expect me on or about the 9^th. I will write to you again to name the exact day & desire you to secure me a bed - I hope to find you quite well & comfortable. If you have any questions to ask of Bonney ³ write to me at Burley - I shall keep your letter at hand & when we meet we will talk over all the subjects you name, & many others I hope, for I enjoy the idea of seeing you of all things - but I will not enter upon them now - more than to say that I cannot conceive a more difficult, dry subject to speak on than the learning of the druids ⁴, & wonder how you get through it at all - I shall be very glad that you were better acquainted with the Miss Copleys ⁵ - I never saw such well informed nice young women - they are in a state of the greatest enthusiasm about their Italian Tour, & seem to have enjoyed what they saw more rationally, & to have had a more classical feeling in their progress through that country than any other Travellers I have met with.

Some of these days our turn will come, & as soon as you are Senior Wrangler ⁶ we will all set out together for the country of Virgil, & Cicero. ⁷ I have no idea whether you mean to try again for the Pitt scholarship, but I am quite certain you will decide rightly - My anxiety about your welldoing I think is [illegible], but my confidence does also in a tenfold proportion - & I feel sure you will always be a credit & happiness to those who love & are interested about you -

God bless you my dear Boy - Y^r Aff
C. F.

Henry Talbot Esq^r
Trin: Coll:
Cambridge