Lacock Abbey, near Chippenham
30th January 1830
Sir
The reason I have not got sent my manuscript (if it is necessary to give any reason for what you have perhaps forgotten all about) is that you informed me a brochure would not sell, and what I had written was not enough to form an octavo of any decent thickness, however it might be assisted by amplitude of margin. It is my intention therefore to wait a little & see whether I cannot add something else, but as I have a great aversion to prolixity I wish you would let me know at your leisure what is the minimum number of pages that will make a book producible.
Mr Moore’s life of Byron <1> is a most amusing and agreeable work and I trust its success has been equal to what you anticipated – The second volume will be expected by the public with anxiety
I remain Sir Yours truly
Henry F. Talbot
Mr Murray
Bookseller
Albemarle St
London
Private
1830, January 30.
Talbot, Henry F–
of Chippenham–
Notes:
1. Thomas Moore (1780–1852), Irish poet, Life of Byron (1830).