Downing Lodge
May 27th 45
My dear Talbot
I am very sorry to tell you that my wife <1>is still confined to the sofa under orders of the greatest possible quietne ss & of leaving Cambridge for the seaside as soon as we are free to do so –
This we shall be about a weeks time and I am afraid therefore we must for the present forego the expected pleasure of your company as we shall not be here during the meeting of the Association<2> This is a great disappointment as I fully expected that between your adumbrations & my colouring, we should have taken the whole place rather by storm than by sunshine.
Additional subscribers for the Views of Scotland <3>
Master of Trinity
Profr Henslow
Mr Novere
(Great Hanmore, Middlesex)
I hope you have a rich stock of Stadthausen
Yours very truly
T Worsley
Our own house will be dismantled before our departure for the vacation but if you will honour us by your presence in College I will leave orders for rooms to be retained in your name – and we shall console ourselves with the hope of seeing you & your Lady here at some time when we may enjoy more of your society than during so bustling a week –
[envelope:]
W. H. Fox Talbot Esqre
31 Sackville Street
London
To be forwarded
if absent
Notes:
1. Katherine, née Rawson, eldest daughter of Stansfield Rawson, of Wasdale Hall, Cumberland.
2. The annual meeting of The British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at York in 1845.
3. WHFT, Sun Pictures in Scotland (London: by subscription, 1845).