Cambridge <1>
June 4th 1819.
I wrote you a long letter a long time ago, directed according to your desire to No 2 Sackville St <2> “to be forwarded immediately” – Since you have not received it, I will take care to send no more that way. We have changed our minds, & are not going to the isle [sic] of Wight, but to Ilfracomb [sic] in Devonshire. – However we are not to assemble for more than a month, so that it will suit me better to pay you a visit at present. All this I told you of a long while ago in my letter which is lost: – and that I would wait for your answer before I set out, to know if my visit wd be agreeable. – I cannot do so now, or I shd lose all the time I have. However I have set my heart on seeing the Isle of Wight: tho’ my companions won’t go there because we hear it is a dear place. Therefore I mean to take it in my way to you: – and stay a day or two looking about me. Write to me one or two letters, for fear they shd be lost, directed post office, Cowes, I. of Wight; and if you are disposed to receive visits, I will sail by the first packet. – Give my love to Mr Feilding, <3>
I am Yr Affte Son
W. H. F. Talbot
à Miladi Elis. Feilding
Château de Chanteleu
près de Rouen
France
12 Juin 1819 <4>
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Notes:
1. Trinity College, Cambridge.
2. 2 Sackville Street, occaisional London base of WHFT.
3. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.
4. Written in another hand.
5. Written in another hand.