TALBOT1084

Genoa,
4^th June 1823

My Dear M^r Feilding,

Angioj ¹ has just been with me, & we had a long chat about you all. He is going to write to you, & I told him his last letter had been received. He says he always uses the razors you gave him. If you spend the winter here he means to get a month’s leave of absence from Turin, to see you. He made many enquiries after every member of the family, not forgetting Baptiste & Pierre. ² He says Saluces[?] is leading a quiet life at Turin. Fazakerley ³ is going to write to you. – Your road lies thro’ Modena, & if you can arrange it, Faz. would take that opportunity to explore the [illegible deletion] road from Pistoja to Modena, & meet you there. Il Marchese Boijl ⁴ is gone to Sardinia two days ago. I hear the Mildmays ⁵ are at Florence, I wish I had known that while I was there. I met Petre ⁶ there. They are making a new road from Lucca to Modena; From the top of a lofty mountain called Prato Fiorito we saw the whole course of this road till it passed over a snowy Apennine, ⁷ & certainly the idea is very bold to take it over such a ridge. In two years it will be finished – I met Peploe here in the street, but he is gone. I hope the weather is as cool with you as it is here, quite pleasant.

Yours Aff^tly
Henry Talbot

Posting is cheap in the K. of Sardinia’s dominions: one only pays 3 francs a post for 2 horses – The post being 5 miles; to be sure they don’t always give one full measure.

Il signore
Signor Feilding

Poste Restante
Roma

with Mess^rs Freeborne Smith & Co’s compts – ⁸