Trin. Coll. Cambridge
Decr 29
My Dear Talbot
I am quite provoked to have been left in the dark so completely in respect to your parliamentary prospects – But I think it may not yet be too late & I have written to Town on the subject at once – If I were you I should go up immediately – call on Lord Holland & Ld Musgrave or Duncannon <1> If he is returned from Derby where he was called by John Ponsonby’s <2> illness – If you take this hint call at Ellice’s <3> Cleveland Sq. where you will find Mulgrave P Thomson <4> or some other friend who may tell you what offices arise – but promptitude is everything My return is Sep & I think so is that of Pryse <5> also
I should be delighted to visit you & see how you play Abbot.
Yours obligd
T Spring Rice
Henry Fox Talbot E MP
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
T Spring Rice
Notes:
1. Henry Richard Vassal Fox, 3rd Lord Holland (1773–1840), MP; Sir Richard Musgrave (1790–1859), MP; John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough (1781-1847), MP, who had been created 1st Baron Duncannon of Bessborough, County Kilkenny, on 19 July 1834.
2. The son of Duncannon, John George Brabazon Ponsonby (1809–1880).
3. Edward Ellice (1783-1863), 'Edward Ellice, the Elder', MP for Coventry, of 3, Cleveland Sq, London.
4. Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham 1799-1841), MP. Later the 1st Governor of the united Province of Canada.
5. Pryse Loveden Pryse (1774-1849), MP for Cardigan.