TALBOT2736

Frankfurt a/m ¹

Thursday August 29^th 1833

My dear Henry

I received your letter from Thun ² yesterday, half an hour before we left Wiesbaden, which we did not much regret. We are at the Englishen Hof with the Grevilles & Lady F. Leveson, ³ who are very pleasant people. We are all going in a body to call upon the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, ⁴ & expect to dine with her 2 o’clock, selon l’usage du pays ⁵ – Homburg ⁶ is only 7 or 8 miles from here, at the foot of some beautiful woody hills. We received today a letter from Liebenstein to say we should be welcome on the 1^st Sept^r the day of we proposed; therefore we shall set off tomorrow, sleep I think at Gellnshausen, ⁷ a very curious place, strongly recommended by Uncle William, ⁸ the next day at Fulda, & arrived on the third at Lieb< enstein ⁹> so direct Bains de Liebenstein, Duché de Saxe <missing text>

Pray tell me if you have heard lately from London or Laycock Abbey – I have not for such an immense time, that I don’t know what to think, & cannot help tormenting myself – only the post is so irregular, & perhaps they have been déménageant ¹⁰ to Laycock – tell me what you know about them. I wrote to Amandier ¹¹ some days ago, to Berne, but it is a great chance if you she will get it. I am in a prodigious hurry, & therefore must make an end – How I envy you going to Palermo! of all delightful places I believe it is the most heavenly! Addio

Y^r aff^ly

Caroline

I hope we shall not just miss you at Varese–

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