TALBOT1722

S^t Michael’s Mount
9^th October

My Dear Henry

I am writing to you from a delightful Boudoir opening on a terrace overlooking the Sea, 253 feet above the it, the waves blue like the Mediterranean. This house on the top of a rock takes my fancy more than any thing I have seen in Cornwall. I hope you will have found two Letters Poste restante at Paris. You have written very seldom to us, totally forgetting the agreement we made before your departure that you were to write, & we to be written to, we having nothing to say & you everything.

I made the same arrangement with Louisa ¹ & have not written to her once, but received her descriptions whenever she was inclined to communicate. We have paid a visit at Lord Dunstanville’s ² & tomorrow go to Lord Falmouth’s ³ & then into Dorsetshire. Pray come to us at Moreton, ⁴ your aunt ⁵ will be so glad to see you, & I shall be so impatient I could not bear you to spend your first moments any where where I was not. I am so happy to think y^r Mountain air has done you so much good, & only fear you will not be inclined to go again with us. You will find Kit ⁶ in Dorsetshire, he is going afterwards to Paris. Caroline ⁷ has to day completed her twelve vignettes for M^r Moore’s Legends ⁸ by the time you come back you will see her in print. How I should like to see you so! has the rarefied air of the Alps inspired you? Your friend Sir Richard Vyvyan ⁹ has been writing on Political Œconomy, & has now on the Stocks some work of metaphysics. He is building, so we could not go there as he said the house was not in a fit state to receive Ladies. I was the firs[t]¹⁰ person presented to the little Queen of Portugal ¹¹ after her landing, but I suppose your Sisters ¹² have told you all about it. I like very much what Harrison ¹³ has done to this house, he has built one of the most comfortable libraries I ever saw & fitted it up himself with oak book cases in very good taste, he did the whole of it. Caroline is writing to you so no more at present –

God bless you Dearest

Monsieur
Monsieur Fox Talbot
Poste Restante
Dieppe
France