Castleford, <1>
19th June 1816.
My Dear Mamma,
I arrived here yesterday afternoon. We had fine weather for travelling, but met with no adventures; except that a woman asked me “Pray sir, are we in Cambric Shire?” Mr Gordon, one of Mr Barnes’s <2> former pupils is here during the College vacations; and I am very much annoyed & disappointed to learn that Nuttall is only gone home for his Holidays, & will stay on till Christmas – My Garden looks pretty well. – covered with weeds &c. &c. but tho’ some of my flowers are dead or nearly so, some others are in blossom & very pretty.
I remain, Yr Affte Son,
W. H. F. Talbot.
Lady Elisabeth Feilding
31 Sackville Street
London
Notes:
1. Castleford, Yorkshire, 10 mi SE of Leeds, where WHFT went to school from 1815-1816.
2. Rev Theophilus Barnes (1774 –1855), of Castleford.