TALBOT2992

[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Horatia - see ]

Aix les Bains
8^th October

My Dear Henry

I am so pleased that you have hitherto had such fine weather for your journey – every day since you went the sun has been shining in the most brilliant manner. We slept at Annecy where I arrived excessively tired, and the next Morning did as you advised & took a Char & went along the side of the Lake as far as a very picturesque Castle built on a rock that projects into the Water. Yesterday evening we got here & found Caroline ¹ much better. Horatia ² began her douches this Morning & I took a Bath of Eau d’Alun, which is one of the sources ³, and it has done me good, which is as much as I can expect the first time. The Doctor has ordered me to be rubbed with the seed of Lycopodium – is not that some sort of fern?

I expected to have found a letter here from you, as you promised to write from Fribourg.

Monsieur
Monsieur Talbot (W.H.F.)
Poste Restante
à Cologne
Allemagne