Genoa,
4th June 1823
My Dear Mr Feilding,
Angioj <1> has just been with me, & we had a long chat about you all. He is going to write to you, & I told him his last letter had been received. He says he always uses the razors you gave him. If you spend the winter here he means to get a month’s leave of absence from Turin, to see you. He made many enquiries after every member of the family, not forgetting Baptiste & Pierre. <2> He says Saluces[?] is leading a quiet life at Turin. Fazakerley <3> is going to write to you. – Your road lies thro’ Modena, & if you can arrange it, Faz. would take that opportunity to explore the [illegible deletion] road from Pistoja to Modena, & meet you there. Il Marchese Boijl <4> is gone to Sardinia two days ago. I hear the Mildmays <5> are at Florence, I wish I had known that while I was there. I met Petre <6> there. They are making a new road from Lucca to Modena; From the top of a lofty mountain called Prato Fiorito we saw the whole course of this road till it passed over a snowy Apennine, <7> & certainly the idea is very bold to take it over such a ridge. In two years it will be finished – I met Peploe here in the street, but he is gone. I hope the weather is as cool with you as it is here, quite pleasant.
Yours Afftly
Henry Talbot
Il signore
Signor Feilding
Poste Restante
Roma
with Messrs Freeborne Smith & Co’s compts – <8>
Notes:
1. See Doc. No: 01525.
2. Servants.
3. John Nicholas Fazakerley (1787–1852), MP.
4. Marquis Boyl. [See Doc. No: 03115].
5. Possibly Sir Henry St. John Carew St. John-Mildmay, 4th Baronet (1787-1848), and his 2nd wife, Harriett, née Bouverie (d. 1834).
6. See Doc. No: 02068.
7. Series of mountain ranges bordered by narrow coastlands.
8. Written in another hand.