Schwatz
1st June
My dear Henry
Here we are arrived this far, & hoping to be at Munich to-morrow, as we have a great mountain to cross & it is too far to get there in one day according to our rate of moving. We shall sleep therefore at Kreuth or Tegernsee, & be at Munich I hope early in the day. I trust you have not been waiting for me long, it troubles me much to think you have, & yet I could not have helped it anyhow Lord Mt E. <1> has borne the journey better than I expected not being well when we started, & we have not been detained anywhere but kept steadily on by short stages, which is much the best for invalids. I shall hope to find you quite well again, & long to hear all about Mama <2> &c This is a very pretty place in the mountains, where I don’t think you ever were – nor in the Achenthal where we are going to pass today.
Addio caro <3>
Yr aff sister
Horatia
On the whole I think we are wonderfully exact as I wrote word so long ago we shd arrive about the 1st
We are going to the Hotel de Bavière unless it shd be full so come there to see for us.
Monsieur
M. Fox Talbot
Poste restante
Munich
Notes:
1. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law.
2. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.
3. Goodbye dear.