[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Lady Elisabeth - see Doc. No: 00263]
Hotel Rignolles
Monday
My dear Henry –
You will be glad to have one Line to tell you that our voyage was prosperous by 2 H 42 m long [illegible] but neither your Mother or Horatia <1> or any of us in short except poor Gwynne <2> were at all indisposed – though nearly all the other Passengers were very bad indeed – Having been detained longer than I intended at Dover we [illegible deletion] to set out tomorrow – & to go by Cambrai as I told you – At Rheims or Besancon [sic] we shall hear from you
If you have an opportunity communicate this intelligence to Moore <3> – to whom I wrote from Dover & will not therefore trouble with another Letter – Give my love to Constance <4>
Yr aff
C. F
H. Fox Talbot Esqre M.P.
Angleterre
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother, and Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.
2. Mrs Gwynne (d. winter 1841/1842), lady’s maid, cook and housekeeper to Elisabeth Feilding.
3. Thomas Moore (1780–1852), Irish poet.
4. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.