TALBOT3161

Sackville Street ¹
Friday 6^th Nov^r 1835

My dear Henry

Many thanks from me & Bimbo ² for your Souvenir of the eventful day – The weather here is so yellow & abominable that we mean to stay as short a time as possible – & though I must see Cartwright, who will not be in town till Monday, it is most likely we shall go to Richmond either before or immediately after; as with some contrivance L^d M^t E. ³ will be able to hold us.– It would be therefore useless to ask you to come now, tho’ you may imagine how much I wish to see you Our plans are as usual entirely en l’air; but we have partly given up the Blickling Scheme for the present, as the place always disagrees with L^d V. ⁴ at this time of year – Entre nous, ⁵ it is not impossible we should all go to M^t Edgcumbe ⁶ for a short time, as his affairs require his presence there, & we also wish much to see it again – in that case we might perhaps take a glimpse of you en passant, either going or coming – I cannot build upon this hope yet, so will say no more for the present. I will be sure to write when anything is decided. The Kerrys ⁷ arrived last night, all the way from Calais in one day – they had a passage of 3 hours & we had one of 2^h 40^m from Boulogne – they go to Bowood ⁸ tomorrow. – There are none of our belongings in town but Uncle William, ⁹ whom I have not seen yet – We are going to Drury Lane tonight – L^d M^t E. recommends the New Opera, the Siege of Rochelle, ¹⁰ & the Singers, so I suppose they must be good – At Paris we went to the play almost every night we did not go to a party – At the Français, the new tragedy in prose by Casimir de la Vigne ¹¹ [sic] is most interesting – it is called “Don Juan d’Autriche” – It is in five acts, each of which is as long as three ordinary ones; so that it occupies alone the whole evening – One gets better acquainted with the personages by this means – It was admirably acted & the actors looked & dressed exactly like the portraits one knows of the principal persons – I think I have actually been liée ¹² with Philip 2^nd! –

Addio fratello mio caro ¹³ – Love to Constance & Ela ¹⁴ – I long to see you all –

Y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline

Direct under cover to L^d M^t E. Richmond Hill

London November six 1835 M^t Edgcumbe
Henry Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham