Florence
Decr 17th
My dear Henry,
You will be quite tired of the sight of my handwriting & changeableness but this will be I hope the last. I have been so unwell & am so still with a rhumatic [sic] cold that it is impossible to leave Florence this week, therefore you had better not expect us before the 28th if you have taken the Lodgings they must wait for us if not you need not do so till you hear again from me. I will tell you in time when to meet us & I shall be delighted to see you & Mr Feilding. <1> I think we shall take the shortest road, by what I hear both roads are miserable enough so the shortest must be the [illegible deletion] preferable. I am too stupid to write more at present – I shd have written to you before only I was always hoping to be well enough to set out on the appointed day.
Yours affy
Jane H. Nicholl
Write to me again
À Monsieur
M. W. H. F. Talbot
Palazzo Ceva
à Rome
Notes:
1. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.