TALBOT5068

London –
14 Sept^r 1844

My dear Mother

I am particularly sorry I could not manage to come to M^t Edgcumbe ¹ this time & see Caroline ² – I cannot answer your question as to how long I shall stay in London it depends upon circumstances –

as Lord Byron ³ has it

“Circumstance – that unspiritual god

And miscreator!”

I am very glad you cleared up the question I asked about Lord Auckland. ⁴ My photographs then were the prey of the Crocodiles of the Ganges –

I hope you are enjoying yourself at M^t Edgcumbe – Caroline sent me such an account of its beauty & the blueness of the sea!

Your aff^te
Henry