Newby. <1>
20 Sept
My dear Henry.
It is so long since I have heard from you that I think you must have forgotten such a person exists – I am on my way farther North, & your mother <2> is as you know in Town, so unless you write me word I shall live (which I do not at all like) in total ignorance of your plans & movements. I saw Mr Barnes <3> at Sprotbrough <4> & Mrs Barnes also. They both enquired very kindly after you & hoped you would call at Castleford <5> whenever you came that way. I have had some tolerable partridge shooting at Sprotbro’ & here – in two or three days I proceed to Lowther – Copley <6> joins me on the 8th & we go together to make some visits & to Glasgow & Edinburgh – early in November I shall call on your honor at Cambridge. Your mother writes me word you want money – you may draw for what you want only let me know the exact amount of what you have drawn for and do. as I am moving about you must direct to Sackville St <7> Remember me most kindly to all at Penrice <8>
& Believe me Yr most Aff Friend
C.F
Notes:
1. Newby Hall, the Yorkshire home of the 3rd Baron Grantham.
2. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.
3. Rev Theophilus Barnes (1774 –1855), of Castleford.
4. Sprotborough Hall, Doncaster.
5. Castleford, Yorkshire, 10 mi SE of Leeds, where WHFT went to school from 1815-1816.
6. Sir Joseph Copley (1762–1838), of Sprotborough Hall.
7. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.
8. Penrice Castle and Penrice House, Gower, Glamorgan, 10 mi SW of Swansea: home of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot.