TALBOT1196

July 11^th
Montague Sq^re

My dear Henry,

I am astonished that you do not “part company” & take a summers tour into Hungary & Bohemia if I were you I could not resist botanising in such an unknown region. I have no Botanical news whatever to send you but as you desire to know about the Animal World I will tell you all I know & expect you to excuse the stupidity of the letter. In the first place I must tell you the greatest & latest news which is that Mary ¹ is actually in this house! which I suppose you will hardly believe for I who see her before me can hardly help thinking I dream, this is a proof of the advantage of once stirring from Penrice ² I suppose no power could have moved her if she had not been at Malvern ³ or any where but at Penrice Malvern has done Charry ⁴ a great deal of good she has been better since she went there than she had been for a long time. The others are very well & enjoy the hills very much – We leave Town on Friday & take Malvern in our way to Merthyrmawr ⁵ so I shall have the pleasure of a sight of them. Aunt C. & M^r L. ⁶ came to Town yesterday (they brought Mary) to attend Miss Lemon’s ⁷ Wedding which will take place on Tuesday. Uncle Harry ⁸ left Town on Thursday & Aunt Louisa ⁹ &c go the end of this week – Kerry ¹⁰ is getting well but looks miserably thin & pale his spirits are very high so that he requires to be so closely watched for fear of his doing some silly thing which may throw him back. – Caroline’s ¹¹ Drawing was sent to me the day before yesterday it arrived at Lansdowne House ¹² the day Aunt L. left it for Bowood ¹³ so there it laid & she forgot it till Kerry was well again. My darling grows & improves every day, he becomes very interesting I assure you – I suppose I never had an opportunity of watching the forming of a mind before but it is a most engaging employment. I forwarded a letter from Isab Charlotte to you last week beside one from Emma ¹⁴ some weeks ago in which I wrote a few words both were sent to Baden. Aunt C. talks of going abroad this Autumn I suppose they will go immediately to Nice – [illegible] I shall envy them. William ¹⁵ enclo<sed> ¹⁶ a letter from John ¹⁷ yesterday which entertained me very much – he seems to have been delighted with Sicily & Stromboli – how I do regret my having been ill at Naples we might so well have spent a month of the time in Sicily &c but I live in hopes of taking Johnny ¹⁸ some day & then I am determined to have no regrets. We have had a most dismal summer the weather has been so very bad, now it is extremely hot but with a pleasant air, the nights are very sultry & unpleasant. We are just setting of [sic] for Malvern – I forget to send this on the proper day – Love to all – Write

yours aff^ly
Jane

A Monsieur
Monsieur Talbot
Baden-Baden
Radstadt