TALBOT4523

Lacock Abbey
May 31^st

My dear Henry

Your letter from Frankfort received yesterday made us very happy – We had been hoping you would have written from some places between that & Calais – though to say the truth, I think you were making a better use of your time by travelling with such amazing activity – It was rather too great an exertion for you to set out as early as 6 in the morning from Ostend when you had only arrived there at midnight! You do not say how you bore this fatigue – or what change was produced in you by the act of travelling. – You left us in such a poor kind of way that we want very much to know something more perfectly of your health. – You would find a letter from me at Heidelberg – dated the 23^{d 1} only a few days after you set out: – and before that I had not written, having nothing to say: – Lady Elisabeth ² has written since to Munich – and this of mine will catch you I hope before you leave – In Horatia’s ³ last dated the 18^th she mentioned the 21^st as being definitively fixed for their leaving Florence, ⁴ and the 1^st of June for reaching Munich. – so I hope you will not have to wait there long, before they make their appearance. – I have nothing to say of ourselves but what is good – a mere repetition of my last account – Neesham ⁵ arrived on the day appointed – and my week’s acquaintance with her is quite satisfactory as far as it goes – Little Charles is perfectly well – and he enjoys himself out of doors abundantly with the others. – We have lovely weather now – very bright & sunny but not at all oppressive – Lady Elis^th is going up to Sackville Street ⁶on Thursday – She is looking well and is so I think, though she says she does not sleep so well at Lacock as in London. We went to Sloperton ⁷ yesterday & saw poor Russell. ⁸ – he has had a return of the bleeding of at the nose, but is better again now – he is patient & cheerful & looks no worse than is natural in such a state of weakness – M^rs Moore ⁹ seemed tolerably well – considering her great exertions both of body & mind – M^rs Mary Frampton ¹⁰ & M^rs Arnold were here on Saturday & enjoyed walking about the garden exceedingly. – They gave a good account of all at Moreton ¹¹ & informed me that Harriot ¹² & her party had been so delighted with Nice, that they remained there beyond the time originally intended. My letter is therefore waiting for them at Turin, & cannot be answered at present – My dear Sister continues much the same – & drives out a little whenever she feels well enough & the day is fine. –

Your affectionate
Constance

My tenderest love to Horatia & to Caroline –

Germany
Monsieur Fox Talbot
Poste restante
à Munich
Allemagne