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Document number: 6571
Date: 07 Oct 1860
Postmark: Cambridge 7 Oct 1860
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: WORSLEY Thomas
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: Acc 21516 (envelope)
Last updated: 14th November 2012

Downing Lodge
Oct 7 / 60

My dear Talbot

Your letter found me in the midst of legislative labours making & moulding a Body of Statutes for our College.

This operation, which kept me here all the Vacation except four weeks, brought me back on the 25th ult. & from that time till yesterday afternoon – with a brief interval for printing results – we have been sitting de die in diem or rather en permanence: so that I have been obliged to let my correspondence in the mean time go by default. Indeed I had very respectable symptoms of fever last night from overwork – I hope to be clear for a time at least in a day or two, & am then going down to see my brother Mark at Scarborough & recruit a little.

If I am back in time, which I am afraid is doubtful I shall be delighted to receive you & your juvenile during your stay in Cambridge, though I am sorry to say that Mrs Worsley is & will then be in Cumberland with her Mother – Is your son to be a working man & make problems fall in pieces like his father afore him? Whenever you send me your lucubrations cuneiform or luniform I will receive them with a strong [illegible] in their favour & hope you will do the same by my last prentboke – an offering to the Muses, not absolutely mine but in which you may find exercise for your critical needle in obelizing what is done or not done to the Master hand – I must not ask you to keep yourself disengaged on the chance, but should you come up without an engagement to any body else send your man first to Downing Lodge or drive there at once if that is more convenient so that if I am returned you need go no further. At all events I shall have great pleasure in seeing as much of your Son as possible

I envy you the Spanish tour which was [illegible].

Yours Ever
T Worsley

[envelope:]
to
W. H. Fox Talbot Esq.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

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