Panshanger <1>
Monday
My Dear Henry
I enclose you one of the many letters that have been returned to me, just to prove to you how much you lost by never having any dir[ection]<2> There was one at Chester, so I am sorry the post office was shut. You would have found many had you ever given me any other post restante. I shall be in London Friday, so direct Sackville St <3> - Mr F. <4> is at Sprotborough, <5> but will soon leave it, so direct to him at Lord Grantham's, <6> No upon 2d thoughts direct to London & I will forward it. I can send it on to [illegible] I became acquainted with Mr Bonney <7> at Camb Burley, <8> he seems anxious about you to a degree I quite love him for - What are your plans?
Hertford Septr seventh 1818. [illegilble]
Henry Fox Talbot Esqr
Penrice Castle
Swansea
Notes:
1. Panshanger, Hertfordshire.
2. Text torn away under seal.
3. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.
4. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780-1837), Royal Navy; WHFT's step-father.
5. Sprotborough Hall, Doncaster.
6. Possibly Thomas Philip Robinson, 3rd Baron Grantham (1781-1859).
7. Thomas Kaye Bonney (1782-1863), Archdeacon of Leicester.
8. Burley, near Oakham, Rutland.