Priory Lodge,
Peckham
October 1. 1853 –

Sir

I beg to thank you for your courteous reply to my former enquiry respecting Sir G. Talbot and to trouble you, at your convenience, with one other –

In Harding’s History of Tiverton it is said that during the siege of the Castle the nurse of Sir Gilbert’s child was killed ^<1>– Can you inform me who he married? ^<2>

With apologies for thus again troubling you

Believe me very faithfully yours
G. Steinman Steinman

H. F. Talbot Esq^re
&c &c &c

[envelope]
H. Fox Talbot Esq^r
Greta Bank
Keswick

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Notes:

1. "A remarkable circumstance occured during the early part of the siege. Mrs. Cuncick, Sir Gilbert Talbot^,s nurse, was holding his child in her arms, in the round tower of the Castle, when a cannon shot killed her, but left the child unhurt." William Harding, The History of Tiverton, in the County of Devon (Tiverton: F. Boyce, 1845), v. 1, p. 70.

2. He married Mary Cavendish (1556-1632) supposedly in 1567 or 1568.