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Monday August 12^th

My dear Henry

I have received both your letters from Bellinzona & Coine¹ - the last dated the 4^th arrived the 10^th - You seem to have made a most charming & prosperous tournée, ² & to have explored more than anybody ever did before in such a short space of time - any ladies I mean. Two letters of mine must be already waiting your arrival at Berne one for you & one for Amandier ³. Be sure you let me know the instant your direction changes, that no time may be lost in our correspondence. We made an excursion to Frankfort a few days ago - it is only 8 stunds off, so we got there in 3 ½ hours, Everything there is perfectly quiet, but they are so afraid of fresh tumults among the students, that they have got a body of Prussian troops on one side of the town & Austrians on the other. The gardens that go all round the town are beautiful. I hear of nothing but water parties from London - Mama & Horatia ⁴ went in the Galathea ⁵ nearly to the Nore, ⁶ with an immense party of Verulams ⁷ &c - They were thinking of going soon to Laycock Abbey, but Papa ⁸ will be kept some time longer in London by Lady Stuart's death. I write this, in case your correspondence with them should not be as active as mine. L^d Valletort ⁹ is better just now than he has been for a long time. The baths agree very well with him - I think we shall stay about 10 or 12 days a fortnight longer & then proceed on our journey to Meiningen ¹⁰ Direct here still, & I will let you know soon where to write to next. Bimbo ¹¹ grows tall & fat & his two teeth begin to faire de l'effet - he is delighted with two balls Mamma has sent him - they are made of air, covered over with a think coat of India-rubber & bright coloured worsted. They are extremely light & bound famously. Pray tell me if Giovanni's ¹² information was correct, about your wintering at Rome, Addio caro fratello -

Y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline