Letter 3279

Walpole thanks Sloane for visiting his sick son. He assures Sloane that Mr Flamsteed’s observations will be delivered to Abbé Bignon. Walpole’s baggage has not arrived in Paris. He requests that Sloane asks where it is at the shipping company office. Walpole is in good health and drinks a ‘good quantity’ of Bristol waters regularly, which ’causes a plentifull urine that I make every morning, and my stools are regular & good’. Horatio Walpole was a politician, diplomat, and younger brother of Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He worked closely with his brother and represented several constituencies throughout his career as an MP including Great Yarmouth and Norwich (Philip Woodfine, Walpole, Horatio , first Baron Walpole of Wolterton (16781757), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28595, accessed 8 Aug 2013]).