Brussels
21^st September 1820

We have not heard one word from you since we left you! We hope to be home by Tuesday night. We are going by Waterloo to Namur, ^<1> & mean to sail down the river to Huy ^<2> and come back by the road. This, if the weather proves fine. We admire this place more than we did when here before, the verdant hills form a pleasing contrast with the swampy flats of Holland. We expect our money will just hold out. We should never have got on in Holland if we had not taken a servant at Antwerp who interpreted for us; for we found very few people spoke French there, indeed more spoke English than French. You may accompany us on the map if you like, as far as we have gone yet, by my sketch here.

Saturday 9^th Sept. by S^t Omer to Cassel.

Sunday 10^th by Ypres, Menin, Courtray, to Ghent

Monday 11^th to S^t Nicolas

Tuesday 12^th to Antwerp

Wednesday 13^th by Breda to Dort

Thursday 14^th by Rotterdam & Delft to the Hague

Friday 15^th to Leyden

Saturday 16^th to Haarlem

Sunday 17^th by Amsterdam to Zaandam

Monday 18^th back to Amsterdam, by Braek

Tuesday 19^th by Utrecht to Gorcum

Wednesday 20^th by Breda to Antwerp

Thursday 21^st by Mechlin to Brussels

Your Aff^te Son
W. H. F. Talbot

A Madame

Mad^me Feilding
Boulogne sur Mer
Pas de Calais

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Notes:

1. Namur, The Netherlands.

2. Huy, Belgium.