TALBOT998

S^t Omer,
25^th July 1822

My Dear M^r Feilding,

We left Town Monday the 22^d, and slept at Barming, where we were most hospitably received. Next day to Dover, and crossed yesterday in the Dasher. We had a short passage of 3 hours & a quarter, but very rough, with a great swell, and everybody as sick as possible. The London steam packet which left Tower Stairs at 7 in the morning, reached Calais at 10 at night, their passengers had to be carried a mile or more thro' the mud. Among them was Virey & Madame V. ¹ who was so fatigued with the passage that she was not up when we left Calais today at 12. Montgomerie ² has hired a little carriage as far as Brussels.

Brussels
28^th July

We slept Thursday at Cassel; Friday at Tournay, and arrived here late last night. It was too late to see the Lemons ³ owing to which we have unfortunately missed him, as he went to Antwerp at six o'clock this morning; to be present at a sale of pictures, among which is the Chapeau d. Paille ⁴ She has wrote given us the Letter you enclosed to her; dated the 9^th. how very odd you sh^d not have received the repeated Lists of Places we mean to pass thro? We have some thoughts of going to Spa by Namur, ⁵ in order to see Waterloo by the way, as well as Namur itself. I hope you will have taken in from Time to Time where the letters &c, which are directed to me Poste Restante:- else they will be sent away again. Did you observe the Eclipse I wrote you word of?

Yours Aff^tly
W.H.F. Talbot

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a Monsieur
Monsieur Feilding
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