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Donnerstag 1. August 1833 –
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Donnerstag 30 Juli 1833

My dear Henry

I received your letter from Lucerne last Tuesday, only four days after it was written – it is very odd Amandier ² has not yet received my answer, dated 16^th July, since the communication is so rapid between Wisbaden [sic] & Switzerland – I suppose you left Berne before³ it arrived there, where it was directed Poste Restante – What a charming tour you seem to have made! & all the pleasanter for having been at most of the places before. Was not Constance⁴ delighted? you do not tell where yo[u]⁵ [illegible deletion] lodged at Berne, & whether you visited the Marsoil Bay?⁶ We have been here nearly a month, but shal[l] not be able to leave it I am afraid these 3 weeks L^d V.⁷ was ordered 6 weeks bathing, but has had so many unlucky interruptions from gout – he had a fit on our first arrival, & since that had been going on well for a long time, when he had two falls from his horse in one week – He was not hurt by either except bruising his foot; but they very naturally brought on the gout again – he is better today & hard at work learning German – We have a Master three times a week – I am reading Goëthe’s Egmont⁸ – do you know it?

I am so glad you agree to Varese, but I am sadly afraid we shall not be able to arrive there till the middle of September – however that is a very pleasant time of year, & as you say you intended going somewhere in the neighbourhood, I dare say we shall meet there tout de même⁹ – pray continue it if possible – Moreover I wrote some time ago to invite Uncle William ¹⁰ to come & meet us at Varese there & to make him accede the more willingly, I held you out as a bait – I do not yet know whether he will bite. – Lady Charlotte Greville ¹¹ is here – she is a nice¹² old Lady, & Kenny Greville ¹³ is expected today – L^d Francis Leveson ¹⁴ went off the other day to Scotland, having received intelligence that the Duke of Sutherland was dangerously ill, & since his departure we have heard of his death – as younger son he will have 70000£ – year.¹⁵ L^d Dover¹⁶ is likewise dead. But I suppose you have heard all this as well as the numerous marriages going on – the two latest are Susan Liddell to Captⁿ Yorke ¹⁷ & Charlotte Liddell, (just come out,) to M^r Trotter. ¹⁸ C^t Danneskiold ¹⁹ is by this time married to Lady Elizabeth Bruce, L^d Aylesbury’s ²⁰ daughter, & Lord A. at the same time was to marry Miss Tollimache.–²¹ Giovanni ²² paid us a visit the other day, & to my great surprise told me you were going to spend the winter at Rome. If you do [illegible deletion] we shall be playing at cross purposes, since it is now deci[ded]²³ we go for the winter to Nice, as a more favourable climate for L^d V. In the Spring however we are advised not to remain there, but to go on to Nice Genoa or perhaps Rome, according to circumstances. –

Bimbo ²⁴ flourishes, & is become very intelligent, or as Winifred says, so wise! he has just cut his two first teeth, which is a great comfort, though they are hardly yet visible to the naked eye. – Pray let me hear again soon, & continue directing here – & be sure to keep me au courant ²⁵ of your direction, that our all communication between us may not be entirely [missing text]

Addio – love to Constance & Amandier–

Y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline A. Valletort –

Uncle William in his letter invited us to go & see him at the Baths of Ischl, a most delightful place near Salzburg, but I thought Varese such a much more brilliant idea, that I proposed his visiting us instead, et pour toute réponse- ²⁶

en Suisse
Monsieur
W. Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r
Poste Restante
Berne