TALBOT822

[written on the same sheet as a letter from Charles Feilding - see ]

Rue de Clichy
16. April ¹

My Dear Henry

Nothing is yet positively settled as to our destination for the Summer or you may be sure I should have written to you, but after having veered towards every point of the compass & listened to every body’s recommendations at last we are now poised between two only c’est à dire ² Montmorenci & Baden. It was once very near fixed for Spa & still nearer for Aix en Savoie which appears by all accounts to be a perfect Heaven upon earth. It is very amusing the opposite accounts people give of the self same place, for instance some have told us Spa was cool, agreeable & cheap, others that it was hot disagreeable & dear, & so on of Several others, but the only one all join in praise of is Berlin, but there the great distance is a set off to its attractions. Montmorenci is a beautiful shady spot ten miles from Paris, consecrated as classic ground by the residence of Rousseau. ³ I am just going to see Calas, ⁴ so have not time to say any more, as the Ambigu ⁵ begins so tiresomely early. I wonder I h<ave> ⁶ not heard from you since le pas de Calais ⁷ –

I hope Mr Staub[?] produces a great sensation at Cambridge. –

Adieu Carissimo figliato ⁸

Henry Talbot Esq^re
Trin: Coll:
Cambridge