TALBOT964

Nice
17 April.

My dearest Henry

Many Thanks for your letter ¹. The first lines made me tremble – but thank God what might have been attended with such dreadful consequences has passed with only some alarm – how little one knows in this world how soon we may be plunged into unbearable affliction – & how little grateful we are when it does not happen – the absence of evil is a positive blessing, for which we ought to be daily & hourly thankful – You have got on rather faster than I expected & I fear from that circumstance will have missed some of my letters. This however is sure of reaching you so I shall send a part of Kings ² last letter to me as it concerns you. I am in great annoyance about the house not letting I fear we shall get so small a sum for it that you will be a great loser by your generous undertaking – I think my love considering the pleasant footing we are now on about money matters, that as I had no hesitation in telling you that it would be a great relief to me to know that the sum whatever it was rec^d for the house would be made up 500£ & still less in accepting the difference from you so you I trust & believe [illegible], if you find that sum more than you expected or can comfortably afford will not hesitate to say so. I really depend on your doing so – You will find your Journey expensive. in short I have entire depend[ence]³ on your openness with me on this score – King wrote me word that he has made another arrangement about the 600£ I mentioned to you [illegible] so I do not want to know the 400. of which you made a memorandum – I have written by this Post a long letter to your Mother ⁴ with an account of my plans & proceedings – so will not repeat them. The Children ⁵ are in great spirits at the idea of going in a Brig ⁶ – & I confess that it is a great relief to me not to have the job of conveying them to Genoa either by Land or water.

God bless you my dear Henry

I will write to you again soon

Y^r aff
C.F.

Pierre ⁷ forgot to pay for his wine – Adolphe ⁸ has paid for him 3.18s which be so good as to make him give Gwynne ⁹ for Adolphe –

Mons^r
W. H. F. Talbot

Poste Restante
a Paris