TALBOT2995

Aix
Sunday Oct^r 19th

My dear Henry

Mama ¹ wishes me to write again to Brussels thinking it may catch you as you have probably been delayed by the rainy weather. We have had 2 or 3 very dismal days but this morning the sky is bright & cloudless so I hope it is also smiling upon you.

Mama is a great deal better, & looking quite like herself again. Papa ² has given up going by M^t Cenis & by Gap. on her account & has made up his mind to go to Lyons & down the Rhone in the boat to Avignon which will be less fatiguing for her than jolting on the road. Caroline & L^d V. ³ talk of setting out in a day or two & crossing Mt. Cenis. I hope Constance ⁴ has not been tired with her journey. Did she receive a letter from me at Manheim? I was afraid she would not.

Caroline & I have taken lessons in a new art that of swimming in the Piscine it is rather good fun & with those tin boules ⁵ one can hardly sink if one was to try. I am much better for the Douches ⁶ certainly & shall be grateful to the waters of Aix. We will direct our next to Aix Ostend so mind you ask for it. We have only had one letter from Beone [sic] all this time, after all your fair promises.

Addio y^r affte
Horatia

We are going to see the cascade de Gresy to-day hoping it will be swelled by the rains & present a formidable appearance. I don’t think you went there – indeed you did not see any of the sights here you were in such a hurry

M^r Fox Talbot
Poste restante
Bruxelles