TALBOT1852

Lowther Castle
Aug 31^st

My dear Henry

We arrived here yesterday evening, & found the house full of people. Lady Ann Becket, L^y Caroline Powlett, Lady Fred. Bentinck, L^y Eleanor Lowther, Lord Lowther ¹ & many others I never saw before. - We stayed only 3 days at Temple Newsham which is a very fine place, but it poured so all the time we could not get out once. There is a beautiful gallery 100 feet long & 30 wide. Friday we slept at Kirkby Lonsdale, having seen Skipton Castle in our way, & passed through some very pretty Swiss looking valleys. Saturday we went through Kendal to Bowness, to see Amandier, ² who is staying there with M^rs Hopwood ³ on a visit to M^rs Starkie, ⁴ in a very pretty little house on the banks of Windermere, & a garden full of flowers down to the water's edge. We passed a happy day with her, & rowed on the lake & drove along the banks which are beautiful. Sunday morning we went with her to see Storrs, a very pretty place of M^r Bolton's, ⁵ with some remarkably fine pictures, & then came here. I think this house is beautiful particularly the stair case, except that it looks too much like a church. I was delighted with Ulswater [sic] where we drove yesterday - It quite does one's eyes good to see mountains again. - There is a M^r Brown here who was your tutor at Cambridge - he is a very nice agreable old man. I am teaching him & Lady Car. Powlett German: we are reading die deutsche Kleinstädter ⁶ together. I do not know at all where you are, & suppose I must direct this to Sackville S^t. ⁷ I hope you will come here soon - you will be delighted with this place.

Addio carissimo ⁸ -

your aff^te sister
Horatia

Both ⁹ Lord & Lady Lonsdale ¹⁰ have individually & collectively invited you here, so I hope you will come

Penrith third September 1829 Lonsdale
Henry Fox Talbot Esq^re
31 Sackville S^t
London
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham Wilts