TALBOT776

Hôtel du Nord
Rue de Richelieu

7^th August

My Dearest Henry

There never was such a place as this to induce forgetfulness cependant je ne vous ai pas oublié, ¹ & I miss not hearing from you very much, I hope the next Courier from England will be more propitious to me. I have had such quantities to do & to see since I came that I have not yet had a moment for le Jardin des Plantes, ² for which you see I think it necessary to apologise to you. I am just setting off to the Museé des Monumens, ³ the Post to England is going, I am quite <illegible> with Couturiers ⁴ & Brodeuses ⁵ & Marchande de Modes, ⁶ & must return soon to dine at the Ambassadors. Is not all this quite enough to distract one poor pericranium? ⁷ How tranquil Normanton ⁸ must appear in comparison. I am glad you have seen this world of Paris, for I am sure no pen could describe it. Write to m<e> ⁹ tell me of your plaisirs champêtres, ¹⁰ & direct to Sackville St ¹¹. Richard ¹² will forward them. I have a delightful Hotel, on the rez de Chaussée qui donner sur le jardin, ¹³ which is full of Trees & Cupids & Venus’s intermixed with Shrubs & feuillage ¹⁴. They always stick a Cupid on wherever they can

I keep a journal which is more than you did, tho’ I think you bought a book for it –

Y^rs

E F

W. H. Fox Talbot E^r
Rev^d M^r Bonny
Normanton
Stamford