TALBOT5262

Downing Lodge
May 27^th 45

My dear Talbot

I am very sorry to tell you that my wife ^<1>is still confined to the sofa under orders of the greatest possible quietne ss & of leaving Cambridge for the seaside as soon as we are free to do so –

This we shall be about a weeks time and I am afraid therefore we must for the present forego the expected pleasure of your company as we shall not be here during the meeting of the Association^<2> This is a great disappointment as I fully expected that between your adumbrations & my colouring, we should have taken the whole place rather by storm than by sunshine.

Additional subscribers for the Views of Scotland ^<3>

Master of Trinity

Prof^r Henslow

M^r Novere
(Great Hanmore, Middlesex)

I hope you have a rich stock of Stadthausen

Yours very truly
T Worsley

Our own house will be dismantled before our departure for the vacation but if you will honour us by your presence in College I will leave orders for rooms to be retained in your name – and we shall console ourselves with the hope of seeing you & your Lady here at some time when we may enjoy more of your society than during so bustling a week –

[envelope:]
W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
31 Sackville Street
London
To be forwarded
if absent