Whorlton
Saturday September 10th
My dear Father.
I received Clio <1> quite safe by the book post yesterday. Thomas <2> has not been careful in putting up all those books which I put aside to be packed up. Neither My Æschylus nor my Tacitus w here there, Th this however does not particularly signify as I do not want them. But I should be obliged to you if they are about the drawing Library or anywhere else to have them put in my room
There is one book however which I do want and that is the 1st Vol of Poppo’s Thucydides. <3> I am sorry I didn’t mention it sooner as it might have come soon with the Clio. It is half-bound but in case it might get injured by the post perhaps it had better have a bit of mill board on it each side. Our currants were pendulous and so I suppose the ribes petrœa. The Tees came down to day, and it has been blowing a h strong westerly gale all day which has probably [illegible deletion] caused heavy storms near the source of the Tees. I have been taking almost daily walks and next time shall be pre pared to answer any questions on Rokeby Greta et cat. The other side of Barnard castle <4> there is a most beautiful deep glen being part of Morwood Chase where I walked the other day on my way to the bridge of the railway which is to cross the Tees. It is not made of iron like the Deepdale bridge but is constructed of on stone piers of great heights Ross has not yet come back here.
Your affect son
Charles Talbot
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H Fox Talbot. Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Notes:
1. Joseph Williams Blakesley (1808–1885), Herodotus. Clio. Book I. with a commentary by J. W. Blakesley (London: Whittaker, 1852) - see Doc. No: 07944.
2. Probably Thomas Wright, a servant.
3. Ernst Friedrich Poppo (1794–1866), Thucydidis De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo / ad optimorum librorum fidem editos, explanavit Ernestus Fridericus Poppo, first published 1821.
4. A town in the district of Teesdale, Durham.
5. Sydney Smith (1771–1845), Essays: social and political, were issued in two parts.