TALBOT8872

32 S^t James’s place
Friday evening. September 16.

My dear Father.

I went to the gate of the British Museum today where I found the required information placarded up. The Museum is now open. It is closed from the 1^st to the 7^th of September inclusive, and from the 1^st to the seventh of 2 other months in the year, so if you come now you will be all right. I got a letter from Tilly ¹ today in which she speaks of much rain in Dumfrieshire We have had heavy storms here – There was a very heavy one this morning rather early – I took a railway journey to-day from Charing Cross to Greenwich where I had never been, and saw Greenwich Hospital. There is a hill with pretty situations for building worthy of better buildings than it is getting. A great deal of building is going on there and also between Deptford & London, where there are slll still some arable fields to be seen. It is remarkable how much speed they get up on this line where the stations are so close together & also how quick they stop the train. Greenwich Hospital is what I should call a fine building without being very interesting. Let me know when you are coming as I will perhaps ask you to bring a book or two such as Macaulay’s History Vol 2. ²

Your affect son
Charles.

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H Fox Talbot Esq
Laocock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts.