TALBOT8892

Llandaff
Sunday evening Nov^r 6.

My dear Father.

I am very much obliged to you for having paid my allowance into the Melksham ¹ Bank, whence I shall probably soon draw some of it & put in a Bank at Cardiff. No one from Margam was at the Festival (not concert) at Cardiff. I find D^r Ures dictionary of Arts Manufactures & Mines ² to be a decidedly useful acquisition and I have been reading the process of making aluminium. There is a very full account of the manufacture of Iron which would interest you. I also read an arct article on Lithography – & some others.

Monday.

I should be very much obliged if Ela ³ would try & find me Todhunters Analytical Conic sections, ⁴ and Todhunters Differential Calculus ⁵ also Frost’s Newton (which was in the Library or somewhere) which are I believe somewhere at Lacock & would send them to me by Book Post. I am on the scent of some theorems in Geometry and if I was a good hand at analysis I could find out at once whether they are true or false, which it is not easy to do geometrically. I have had a letter from M^rs Nicholl asking me to Merthyr Mawr next Friday and I mean to accept it. We had a sharp frost here this morning –

Your affect son
Charles.

P.S.
M^r Prichard ⁶ is now going over to Cardiff to see M^r Waldron ⁷ his lawyer about drawing Champneys & my indentures. Champneys has accepted the terms f 400 £ for 3 300 £ for 4 years with the option of changing it at the end of 3 years for the shorter period and paying the additional hundred pounds. M^r Prichard suggested that it would be perhaps a good thing for me to make the same reservation in my case – so I told him that you yourself had suggested it as you did when I was at Lacock. I though perhaps he had mentioned it to you but he says he had not. Now M^r Prichard says that judging by my present progress I ought to be quite able to set up for myself at the end of 3 years, so I think that that reservation ought to be made, for if at 3 years I am competent to practise I ought not to lose any time about it, as I am have already started considerably later than is usual. M^r Prichard proposed as you had said so to tell M^r Waldron to put it in, but I said as I was writing I would write and ask you at once. I myself certainly am of opinion that it would be better to make the reservation –

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H Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham