TALBOT5434

Laycock Abbey
6^th November

My Dear Henry

Your Aunt Mary ¹ has given me a Draft for her Sun Pictures ² & M^r Traherne’s ³ but I do not enclose it, not knowing whether you like to run the risk by the post, or whether you might not haply cross it on its transit, so uncertain & rapid are your movements only to be equalled by the Autocrats of all the Russias. I cannot think why you tell Horatia ⁴ I would not go to Brighton, I remember saying I should be willing to go on or after the 20^th November. That is only a fortnight from this writing & I should not like to leave M^r Kendrick ⁵ for another week, at any rate. The famous D^r Currie made a calculation founded on long experience & observation, upon the succession of Months according to their unhealthiness, He says October is one of the most so in all Northern climates, therefore I should probably have had this illness in any part of this damp & foggy island & after all it was only a slight bilious attack which confined me to my room, & I am now by degrees getting about again tho’ not well enough to accompany Horatia to Bowood, ⁶ where she goes tomorrow. Whenever you have generated any schemes in your fertile brain, let me have the benefit of them

aff^ly y^rs
E F

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H. Fox Talbot Eq^r
31. Sackville Street
London