[written on the same sheet as a note from Capt Feilding: see Doc. No: 01061 ]
Friday Feby 28.
I hear from London that Mr Ward <1> is extremely out of humour with himself for having refused the Secretaryship of State & since Lord Francis Conyngham <2> has got it he has found out it would have suited him. a Mr Baring Wall <3> is come here & tells me he has brought me Peveril of the Peak <4> from Lord Auckland <5> but I have not yet received it. Charlotte Lemon <6> has at last written to me & seems to have passed a dismal Winter in the Avenue de Neuilly
Monr H. Fox Talbot
Signor Inglese
Posta Restanta
Napoli
Notes:
1. John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1781–1833). George Canning, the Foreign Secretary offered him the Undersecretaryship of State for Foreign Affairs in 1822, which eventually he declined as beneath his dignity.
2. Lord Francis Nathaniel Conyngham (1797–1876). Text torn away under seal.
3. Probably Charles Baring Wall (1795–1853), MP for Guildford.
4. Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak (1822).
5. George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784–1849), Governor General of India.
6. Lady Charlotte Anne Lemon, née Strangways (d. 1826), WHFT’s aunt.