Michael’s Grove
19 March, 1869
My dear Sir,
I have just received your last sheet of part 2, for which please accept my best thanks. I have just looked at the first and last pages; and am glad to see you agree with me in two points 1st the Te<nn?>ú, (see my page 513,) and 2d the Goim, (my page 150) I hope you will soon commence a part 3, for I often find you help me on my way, even when we differ. My own work gets on rather slowly of late, but I have been unwell, and cannot work so hard just now. I hope however to have a hundred pages ready for you on your return from Italy; I envy you the excursion and should like to follow your example, but with twenty or thirty years less on my shoulders, for I should only feel annoyed at my inability to go about as I used to do.
If you go so far as Naples, I would urge you to make a small trip across the promontory running out between the bays of Naples and Salerno, and then taking a run along the coast, where Amalfi, Positana (I forget the orthography) Arco St Elia, are situated. All that coast from Salerno to the point opposite Capri is extraordinarily picturesque, and will repay an excursion both by land and water. (I do not know why the high places on the continent are so often-dedicated to St Elios, is it from the ? of Elijah?) But I dare say you have seen that part of the world, I now spend many delightful days wandering about that promontory and sailing round it.
Believe me, my dear Sir Yours faithfully
Edwin Norris
H. Fox Talbot Esq&c &c &c