TALBOT1584

[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Caroline - see ]

May 22^d

My dear Henry I am sorry to find you have not received any of our letters directed to Corfu. They were all sent in different ways. How I wish you had happened to buy a villa before you went - it would have done us so much good to go & refresh there; & we could have¹ got it ready for you. London has been very disagreeable this year, nothing but unpleasant things except that Caroline ² has met with a great deal of sterile admiration. Lord Winchilsea ³ is very ill, & your Aunt Charlotte ⁴ not better, & a gloom seems over every thing which I should be sorry to communicate to you. and I am very glad you have been in happier climes this unfortunate Spring.

William ⁵ will tell you all our news, as he hears constantly from his Mother ⁶, tho' owing to melancholy events I have not written often to him lately

Monsieur
Monsieur W. H. F. Talbot

aux soins de ⁷ M^r Strangways
chargé d'Affaires de S. M. Britannique
à Florence
en Toscane
Italie