TALBOT921

[this is written on the same sheet as notes from Lady Elisabeth: - and Horatia: ]

Naples.
Friday 20^th May 1823.

My dear Henry

I wrote to you in answer to your last letter, ¹ which I directed to Florence, & have been expecting one from you, for two or three days past. – At Salerno, we went to see a very curious acqueduct [sic], of light, gothic architecture; they told us it was made by the Devil, & that it had been there since the beginning of the world. – I found near it a very curious flower; you may imagine a plant about a foot & a half high, with leaves in the shape of groundsel, only a great deal larger, & covered with large thorns; the blossom is exactly like that of a potatoe [sic], & the same colour, (lilac) the stem also is covered with thorns. – At Pæstum I found a flower that might appear to the vulgar eye, like a dandelion, only of a lovely pink; I saw there also some beautiful pink Convolvolus. – At Mola di Gaeta, near Cicero’s ² villa, I found a species of Cerinthe like that we saw at Caracalla’s ³ baths; the difference was, that the blossom or bell, was red near the calyx, & the rest yellow; [illustration] Addio mio caro Enrico ⁴, believe me always your affectionate sister.

Caroline Augusta Feilding.

P.S. If you go to Genoa, pray go & see Angioj ⁵. –

Mon^r
M^r W. H. F. Talbot
gentilhomme Anglois

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