TALBOT1449

Sackville Street ¹
29 June

My dearest

You have so contrived it that you have missed all our letters both at Corfu & Florence, ² so that I have to repeat the painful intelligence M^r F. ³ conveyed to you above a month ago, of the death of my beloved Sister ⁴ which followed that of her Son ⁵ in less than six Weeks. We all wrote you many melancholy Letters which I will not now repeat to spoil the pleasure of your journey & as it is doubtful your finding this at Coblentz I shall merely keep to facts. Lord Lansdowne ⁶ has lent us his villa at Richmond which has given me the first pleasurable sensation since you left England. But on the 1^st August he is going to begin making alterations so that we must then leave it, but it is a delightful place & the fresh air will do Horatia ⁷ so much good. Lord Winchilsea ⁸ is rather better, but not well enough for M^r F. to think he can go far off. I have been & am very nervous, & for some weeks have not been able to sleep, nor shall I till I can change the scene, we move to Richmond next Monday the 3^d July - direct always here

God bless you

Sir Charles Lemon's ⁹ first idea was to join you abroad & go to new places, but he has given that up not knowing y^r schemes

M.
Mons^r W. H. F. Talbot
Poste Restante
à Coblentz
Germany