TALBOT797

Sackville Street ¹
May 11^th

My Dearest Henry

I did receive your most entertaining Letter, ² when I was convalescent ³ & it amused me so much it helped to recover me, for amusement is very wholsome [sic]. I was confined to the House for 3 weeks & to my bed for some days of that time, but I am now whats called well tho’ with an entire absence of strength. I am quite astounded to hear the vacation begins before we had formed any plans for it, which we must have a little time to think of. Let me know what you incline to. I incline towards France but there are rumours that the D. of Wellington ⁴ says it will not be safe for the English after the [illegible deletion] Army is recalled. We have just heard that poor little James Frampton ⁵ was released from his sufferings Saturday last at Weymouth. ⁶ I wish they could go abroad & have some change of scene after a confinement of 3 years to his sick couch. Caroline & Horatia ⁷ have got a Country house, in the Regents Park, in very good air tho’ its not above half a [text missing] ⁸ of time. Its in the midst of green fields & they enjoy it excessively tho’ it is not a very romantic situation – I pity y^r annuity Studies, tho’ they are not so horrid to you as they would be to

your anticalculating but very affectionate
E T F

London May eleven 1818 Auckland ⁹ –
H^y Fox Talbot Esq^r
Trinity College
Cambridge –