[this is a complex manuscript, with four separate notes combined on one sheet; Capt Feilding's is Doc. No: 00215; Horatia's is Doc. No: 01106; and Lady Elisabeth's is Doc. No: 00259]
Genoa
Saturday 25th Octr 1823
Mio caro Enrico
We are at last safely lodged at the Villa di Londra <1>; I had always thought there was a spell upon Genoa, & that we should have never have arrived here. Angioj <2> came to see us the first thing this morning. Remember we write a stupid letter on purpose, because we think you will never receive it, & it would be useless to waste our wit.
It is quite a different climate from Milan, it is so warm that we have no fire & the window open. The Montagus <3> are gone from here a few days ago, to Rome, & Lady E. Stuart <4> set off the day before we came, for Paris. The country grew pretty as soon as we approached the Apennines; it became covered with chesnuts, & a clear blue stream flowed between high rocky banks. We expect very soon to receive your promised letter from Turin.
Farewell my dear Henry
believe me always your affectionnate
Caroline
Monsr
Monsr W. H. F. Talbot
gentilhomme anglais<5>
Poste restante
Paris
Francia
Notes:
1. See Doc. No: 01073.
2. See Doc. No: 00921.
3. Probably John Nicholas Fazakerley (1787–1852), MP and his wife, Elinor, née Montague (d. 1847).
4. English gentleman.
5. Elisabeth Margaret Stuart, wife of Sir Charles Stuart, later Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779–1845), diplomat, British ambassador to Paris (1815–1824).