TALBOT6093

My dear Henry

I cannot refrain from writing because I am very sure our thoughts are both fixed on the same place & people – viz the M^t E. party at Palermo ¹ –.It is impossible not to feel anxious so I must beg you to give me the very earliest intelligence you may receive from any of them – as I think they will one of them write to you as soon as they can. Their prognostications have unfortunately proved but too correct as in consequence of what we heard and saw in Sicily we thought an Insurrection would be a serious affair & warned C. about it. – Do not fail to let me hear as soon as you can, & please to direct to Moreton where we are going the beginning of the week – I am impatient to be with my father as he has not been quite well having hurt his foot w^ch has laid him up for the last ten days – .

We are delighted at your glorious refutation of the calumnious article in the Quarterly² – w^ch is about the most ungentlemanlike & absurd tirade I ever read; & I have also sent a Literary Gazette to Moreton, tho’ for those who can read the whole book such a contradiction is the less necessary. – .

I have written twice to Caroline lately, neither of which letters will she ever receive of course but she will hear of Stavordale’s³ improvement from others now no doubt. –

I hope you are all as well as can be expected in this awfully cold weather. We are all perished so near the North Pole but N. keeps wonderfully well for w^ch I am most thankful but not a little astonished.

Y^r Aff^te Cousin & Sister
HG Mundy

Markeaton Jan^y 28.

We have such an exquisite Orchis in flower of which we brought the Root from Palermo – It grew wild on the very mountains from whence the Insurgents are now in the act of descending! Only think of the D. di Serradifalco⁴ joining the patriots! –