TALBOT535

Tunbridge Wells
May 23^d 1811

My Dearest Henry

Your book is this moment unpacked & will be dispatched to Brighton to night. Pray have it enquired for at the Greyhound in East Street which is where it is to be left by the Tunbridge Carrier, & let me know if you get it safe. We got here yesterday Evening after a very pleasant journey the whole Country alentour ¹ looked so green & fresh, & smelt so sweet it was quite delicious, “the breath of Nature & her endless bloom” – We stopt at a Farm house by the way side where we saw a woman milking her Cows & had some new milk which was very refreshing. The situation of this house is remarkably pretty, quite out of sight of the Town, & a great many Trees near it, which is a most agreable [sic] contrast to the barrenness of Brighton –

I hope you received the oranges which I sent & a Letter with them

God bless you my Darling Ever yours
E F

W. H. F. Talbot Esq^r
Rev^d D^r Hooker’s ²
Rotting Dean
Brighton

Tunbridge Wells – May 23. 1811 – ³