Harrow <1>
Saturday
My dear Father.
I have got to acknowledge the receipt of an order for 4 £ for which I am very much obliged to you. Also an odyssey in a fine state of preservation. I have some thought of learning it for lines this quarter. I hope soon to have some bathing but as yet I am afraid the weather is too cold for it. I believe they have not yet Come to a decision on the Shrewsbury peerage, <2> have they?
Your affect. son
Charles Talbot
[envelope;]
H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Notes:
1. Harrow School: WHFT attended from 1811–1815 and his son Charles from 1855-1859.
2. Henry John Chetwynd Talbot, 18th Earl Shrewsbury, 5th Baron Talbot (1803–1868), succeeded Bertram Arthur, the 17th Earl, after the latter’s death 10 August 1856. The succession was contested by James Robert Hope Scott and Lord Edmund Bernard Fitzalan Howard (by his guardian Hon. Albert Henry Petre) in the Court of Chancery in January and February of 1858, and Lord Talbot’s Petition of Appeal was brought before the Committee of Privileges in the House of Lords 12 March 1858, and resolved in the summer of that year. [See Journals of the House of Lords, v. 90].