TALBOT9226

21 Chesham Place
Belgrave Square S. W.
May 15^th 1867

My dear Henry

I have not heard from any of you for ages – & I long to know something about you, & what you have decided upon for your summer plans. Pray tell me where, & when you are going abroad? This return of positive winter is very discouraging for tourists & invalids.

I should like to be informed scientifically, why the sudden heat we enjoyed for one week, was so suddenly & cruelly followed by as sudden a return of cold. As Louisa Gallwey ¹ says, of course it has to do with icebergs & the Gulph Stream! I send you 2 little flowers which grow in Lady Brownlow’s ² garden at Torquay. They are remarkably pretty – especially the yellow one – & I wish you would tell me their names, as I want to get them for Torqua Cotehele, ³ & don’t know what to ask for. They look like perennials. – You never told me whether you had sent any photographs from good engravings, to the Paris Exhibition? ⁴ I wanted to know particularly.

How is Amandier? ⁵ How are you all?

Ernestine ⁶ wrote to Rosamond ⁷ ab^t 3 weeks ago. We left Cotehle on the 27^th Ult^mo staid 6 days at Mount Edgcumbe ⁸ (both places were in such opening beauty!) 5 days with L^y B. at Torquay, & came to our last year’s house here, on the 8^th – London is dull, dark & cold now. Val wrote on the 9^th that they were to leave Cannes the next day, & expected to arrive at Fontaine-bleu last Saturday. I have not heard since – perhaps this change of weather many have altered their plans,

y^r aff^te Sister
Caroline

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H. F. Talbot Esq^re
13 Great Stuart Street
Edinburgh N.B.