TALBOT867

Cambridge ¹
10^th March 1820

What is become of you? You took no notice whatever of my last letter, so I have returned to the safe direction, rue du Houssaye. I wonder the more, for you know how anxious I must be to know the state of things at Paris. A friend of mine tells me that a letter he has just received from Paris seems to imply that everything is as quiet as possible, but I had much rather hear it from yourself. However I shall set off the first moment I can, which will be in a fortnight or less. Yet still I wish exceedingly to hear from you before I leave this place. The English conspiracy ² is beginning to be forgotten in the tumult of the general election. It is odd that the Coroner is endeavouring to extenuate their crime. Lamb ³ seems losing his election for Westminster. – Gilbert Heathcote, ⁴ you know him? is trying for Boston, tho’ he is very ill, & canvasses by proxy: – he is at present first on the poll & I have no doubt of his return, which shews the good of trying. – I hear nothing of Sir C. Cole: ⁵ but from what I saw & heard in the summer, there can be no doubt of his success – Pray answer this eodem die, ⁶ and believe me

Your aff^te Son
W. H. F. Talbot.

My love to M^r F. & my sisters. ⁷ –

À Miladi Elisabeth Feilding
Rue du Houssaye N^o 4
Paris
party rue de CliChy N^o 17