TALBOT1445

Modena

June 13^th 1826

My Dear Mother

I am afraid you will not find any agreeable scheme for the summer, unless I come and help you, I shall therefore come homewards faster or slower according to circumstances, but I think if you write to me at Coblentz I shall get the letter. I think of visiting Copenhagen or Stockholm in the autumn, but we shall see. I spent three weeks with William ¹ at Florence, and five or six days at Bologna – I have bought two pictures at Bologna; one is a copy of Correggio’s ² Madonna al Coniglio; ³ the other a head of Christ by Andrea del Sarto. ⁴ The summer in Italy is cool, very rainy, indeed beyond measure so, & accompanied by the most abundant verdure. The road from Florence to Bologna is so different now from what it was when I crossed it with you, that I scarcely recognized it; the vegetation was so abundant & fresh; the weather was so cool. We met with a violent thunderstorm at Covigliajo – I mean to go by the S. Bernardino – The weather is now getting hot.

Your Aff^te Son

H.T.

Lady E. Feilding
31 Sackville S^t
London
Inghilterra ⁵