TALBOT3707

Dover Street ¹
Monday July 9^th 1838

My dear Henry

Thank you for your advice about sightseeing on our way to Buxton – I shall be very glad to profit by it if possible – but Ernest ² is so utterly disabled from moving, except by being carried about, & indeed suffers so much pain in his feet continually, that he quite dreads the journey & sometimes thinks he shall not be able to accomplish it – I however have no fear in that respect, but on the contrary hope great things from change of air in the first instance – I suppose we shall set off next week about the same time Mama ³ goes to Laycock Abbey. – I heard from Amandier ⁴ today – en attendant ⁵ her journey to Laycock, to meet them, she is going to make a little tour which I much envy her – to the Isle of Man! The expedition is only to last 2 days, w^h seems a very short time to go so far, but railroads & steamboats facilitent les choses ⁶ wonderfully. – I was no less fortunate than Horatia, ⁷ for I got excellent places for Bimbo ⁸ & myself in the D. of Devonshire’s ⁹ Stand, to see the procession pass – the Queen ¹⁰ looked rayonnante & extremely pretty, & from our situation being so conspicuous, she & all the other great personages naturally looked up, by w^h we saw them all to perfection. I want to know if the oak tree I planted instead of the Spanish Chesnut that was injured & died is flourishing? Pray write to me sometimes at Buxton, as I shall know nothing ab^t you otherwise

Y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline

W. Henry Fox Talbot Esq^re
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham