TALBOT949

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

Naples.
Friday 20^th May 1823.

Salve Henrici! ¹

We have taken an amazing fancy to an Apartment at Castellamare close to the Sea & the finest air I ever breathed, but it is too near Resina ²

the inhabitants of which are full of revenge, and I am afraid besides you would not come there again this year, & yet it seems a pity to leave this lovely part of the world after one short month, for I have certainly no chance of seeing it again, tho' probably your Sisters may. We have heard of a house at Varese, but it seems equidistant from both Lakes, I had rather have been before one of them. The Weather continues extremely cool, even cold sometimes, but I find it much more relaxing & unwholsome [sic] here than at Castellamare, it is surprising there should be so much difference.

We found quantities of plants (unusual at least to my eye & your Sisters) on the Mountain behind the Palazzo del Rè at Castellamare. M^r M. ³ made beautiful sketches at Amalfi, but it is not a place to trust oneself much alive An acquaintance of M^r Protheroe's ⁴ was stopped & robbed there lately it is a nest of Brigands. There are no Donkeys at Magini, so its lucky I did not trust to them, he was obliged to walk from thence to Amalfi after being very near swamped

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

Poste Restante
Nizza Maritima
Nice Maritime
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