TALBOT2985

Aix les Bains
Tuesday Sep^tr 9^th

My dear Henry

Thanks for your wee letter – but pray write me a longer one with the promised account of your journey. It is a pity you overtired yourselves & I am sorry to hear from Papa ¹ that you are not yet quite restored. I suppose it must have been the heat which has been very great here, but I should rather have enjoyed it if the instant it grows cool in the evening I was not ordered in & shut up for fear of damp. We had a violent hurricane last night & thunder & floods of rain all the morning so I am afraid there is an end of our fine hot weather. Were you not surprized to see Papa walk in he tells me Mama ² is better. I do think the douches here would do her feet good – but that of course D^r Prévost can judge of better than I can.

It is very tantalizing to think Caroline ³ & you & Constance ⁴ should be all so near me & yet I cannot see you. You must not fix any time for going back till I come, you know there can be no particular hurry for going back now you have come all this way. If I can but take my douches 2 days running without too much fatigue I shall get over the ground much quicker. I am certainly much better, & have actually taken rides on donkeys for the last 3 days. It is a beautiful country & there are nice lanes to ride in & mountains to climb up for those who have sufficient energy.

Give my love to Constance – I am afraid the letter I wrote her was lost which is a great pity tell her as it was very interesting

y^r aff^te
Horatia

Monsieur
M^r Fox Talbot

aux Délices
près Genève