My dear Talbot
I am delighted to find that like a good man & true you are coming to the trecentenary [sic] day of the old House. & still more so as it gives us a chance of having you with us here – I do not know what arrangements you may have contemplated but I counsel you first to reckon College rooms en l’etat du centigrade <1> that any house can at present be pronounced generally warm is doubtful. We will however promise you a warm fire a warm bed & a warm welcome. If the Calotype will take snow-peices [sic] pray bring it with you as I suppose the time required approaches zero so closely that Temperature has long ceased to affect the operation. I have just sent my last sheet to Press for this years [sic] Publication of the Xtian Advocate & hope in another year to have expounded my view of the Sermon on the Mount. Further investigation confirms the opinion I have long held that its method is not less consummate than its purport – Write a line if there is time to say when you will arrive – if not your room will be ready
Ever Yours
T Worsley
Downing Lodge
Decr 18 /46
Notes:
1. In order of (degrees) centigrade.