Saturday
It will suit my Ladyships’ convenience that your Wranglership should arrive on the 25th – therefore on that day læti expectamus te. 1 when I left Middleton 2 they were full of an Oxfordshire Meeting to counteract the stupid ultra loyal addresses, & in to day’s paper I see a letter from Lord Jersey 3 which was composed while I was there. I [illegible deletion] bought those books (or the Prophecies I mean) on your recommendation & took them down to Melbury, 4 thinking that would be quiet place [sic] for that sort of reading but no sooner were they unpacked than Charlotte Lemon 5 seized upon them & carried them off to Came, with a promise to return them soon which has not been kept but as William & Ly Ilchester 6 are to be in town in ten days I hope Charlotte will think it expedient to send them up. Non altro per ora se non ch’io prezo Iddio chi vi mantenghi sempre nella sua santa grazia – 7
They had a brilliant Meeting in Wiltshire I am glad your County is so sterling
London Jany twenty 1821 Auckland 8 –
Hy Fox Talbot Esqr
Trinity College
Cambridge
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