TALBOT3160

Ship Hotel –Dover

Monday 2^nd Nov^r 1835 –

My dear Henry

We left Paris last Thursday, & arrived here this morning at eleven o’clock, after a delightful passage of 2 hours & 40 minutes, being the quickest ever performed, all but 8 minutes – The seas was quite smooth & nobody ill, an immense agrément ¹ – Bimbo ² was in high spirits, & much elated with the notion that he was going at England – He would have it that Dover was London. – We staid a day at Boulogne in expectation of a case full of gowns which would have escaped the duty better by being with us – But it did not arrive, & we came away, unwilling to lose such fine weather – I hope you will come & see us in London – We shall not be comfortable, as we shall only be there for a few days, & have had scarcely anything done to the house; but there will be your old room ready for you, & I dare say you will not mind the rest upon a pinch – We proceed tonight to Canterbury, & shall be in London tomorrow –

Goodbye, caro fratello, ³
Y^r very aff^te Sister –

Caroline

Give my best love to Constance ⁴ –
Why did I experience no sensation on touching English ground after so long an absence? Kerry ⁵ was equally sorry with ourselves at leaving Paris – not so Lady Kerry ⁶ –

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^r
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts