TALBOT1212

Villa Gallo Oct 7

Dear Henry

Your letter does not say when you are going to leave Munich so I venture to direct this to you there. You perhaps remember the innkeeper at the Tab[l]e Ronde at Vienne ¹ telling us of an English family having staid there 2 or 3 months & our being very incredulous, it was to prove them that they did not know all the curiosities of the country that I begged for the inscription. I gathered & attempted to dry every flower I saw in Sicily & you shall see the bad success I have had from knowing nothing about it I was obliged to change the paper very often, as notwithstanding the heat of the weather there came a sort of damp on the flowers.

I am much indebted to you for your news of Williams ² being in England as he never writes by any chance I suppose he has some plan in view of joining some other embassy as there are changes without end going on. Hill is coming here.

I live in the top of the tower so you can imagine the lovely view I have on both sides.

The rains are so violent here at present that I believe all the seeds are drowned, for the last ten days we have had nothing but rain thunder &c. I was asking Sir W. Gell ³ the other day about Pompeii he promised me a good many of the sort of scribbled inscriptions you mentioned ⁴ when the weather is more settled I shall move about more, we live at present the most retired life never going out of grounds except for expeditions –

Your affec

J. Fox Strangways –

[Address panel:]
A Monsieur
Monsieur Talbot
München
Allemagne
aux soins de M^r Le Noble ⁵
rue S^t Honoré
N^o 343
à Paris.