TALBOT1708

Geneva
4^th September 1828

My Dear Mother

I arrived here the 18^th August, and was disappointed at not finding a letter ¹ from you. I felt no inclination to write any account of my adventures, until I heard from you, and [illegible deletion] your first letter did not reach me until the day before yesterday. I should probably have written a great many letters in the mean time, but I felt too much out of spirits at hearing nothing of you. You should write on your letters “par France ²” otherwise they go through Germany and are five days longer in coming. The Payne Gallways’ ³ are here: they have a pretty campagne about a mile from the town. I did not find them out for a week, and then it was by accident: since which I have seen a good deal of them. This is the third summer they have spent here & have not yet seen Chamonny; I proposed an excursion there but the General was immovable, the others wished very much to go.– I was obliged to go to Chamonny by myself which was not very amusing but I got some exercise. – The papers say Lord Landsdowne’s ⁴ to join the D. of Wellington. ⁵ I suppose there is no truth in it.

Your aff^te Son
Henry Talbot

Lady Elisabeth Feilding
at Sir C: Lemons, ⁶ Bart.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Carclew
Truro
Cornwall
Angleterre