My dear Talbot,
I enclose your Carmen Laureatum, <1> together with a prize-book: why did you not tell me, that it was your 3d copy? Preston’s illness gave a false alarm: the Scarlatina ceased entirely with Ward’s removal. God bless you! I hope you will like your prize, for its own sake and mine: for I am,
with truest affection
Yours
Geo Butler.
Harrow, <2>
6 Decr 1813.
Jan–Dec
1813.
Dec. 6. 1813.
Notes:
1. Prize on poetry.
2. Harrow School: WHFT attended from 1811–1815 and his son Charles from 1855-1859.