TALBOT986

Dear Talbot.

Tho’ you run away so unceremoniously, you see I am resolved to persecute you with service, which I would not do were it [illegible deletion] not of such a nature as you may avail yourself of, or let it alone at pleasure. You will find the Canonico Jorio¹ every day almost before xii or i o’clock somewhere in the Royal Museum, or the Studj as it is more generally called.–²

If you can conveniently for bring or send home by a friend for me a little book called “Memoria di un antico Sepolcreto Greco Romano, da Lorenzo Giustiniani,” to be had at Naples, and I shall be much obliged to you: tho’ I do not care so much about it as that you should put yourself to inconvenience ab^t it. If you do however, you may as well mention it to any one to whom you shall be writing about that time, but I should ask another person to do it for me. – If you fall in during your travels with a young Greek of Cefallonia, Metaxà by name,³ embrace him for me, & for yourself. – I wish you most sincerely a pleasant journey & a safe return, which none will be more glad to see than, dear Talbot,

Yours faithfully
Thomas Thorp.

Trin. Coll. ⁴
27 June. 1822.

I send you & the Canon only half a sheet each, as both have to go under cover to a friend in London, whom I shall ask to direct this by help of the Red book,^<6> having forgotten your street, & I must not exceed the M.P. weight.⁵ – If you see Digby,⁶ tell him I had written to persuade him to come & be made M.A. next Saturday and Tuesday, but the letter was not worth sending.

I believe you can tell me of a Society in London composed of persons who have travelled abroad.⁷ I should be much obliged to you to tell me the nature & object of it, as I have long desired to be a Candidate, tho’ not fully aware of its character. I understand it is very difficult to be admitted; which as it diminishes the disgrace of a repulse, increases my ambition to undergo the ordeal. If you can and will aid me in this ambitious design, besides giving me the information I requested above, you will oblige me very considerably indeed. I put myself in your hands, even to make a member of me, if you have the power & no disinclination. –