Harrow <1>
June 29th 1813.
My dear Mamma,
I think the book is very pretty: I hope you are coming to the Speeches – Sperling, the captain, speaks Gray’s ode “the Bard”. – Welsh speaks the speech of Cassius <2> – I never saw such a tremendous shower as fell yesterday: – Some pipe burst, & the servants hall got full of water. – I have learned 100 lines of Virgil this morning by heart: it is about good & bad soils – & vines, olives, & corn. I am in the 2d Georgick 250th line – Jane <3> has not answered my last letter. I am going to do my theme. It is about frugality – So I shall be frugal of my writing
Yr Affte Son
WHFTalbot
Pray come to the Speeches. At one oclock on Thursday next – PreciselyLady Elisabeth Feilding
31 Sackville St
London
Notes:
1. Harrow School: WHFT attended from 1811–1815 and his son Charles from 1855-1859.
2. Gaius Cassius, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar.
3. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874).