[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Horatia - see Doc. No: 02992]
Aix les Bains
8th October
My Dear Henry
I am so pleased that you have hitherto had such fine weather for your journey – every day since you went the sun has been shining in the most brilliant manner. We slept at Annecy where I arrived excessively tired, and the next Morning did as you advised & took a Char & went along the side of the Lake as far as a very picturesque Castle built on a rock that projects into the Water. Yesterday evening we got here & found Caroline <1> much better. Horatia <2> began her douches this Morning & I took a Bath of Eau d’Alun, which is one of the sources <3>, and it has done me good, which is as much as I can expect the first time. The Doctor has ordered me to be rubbed with the seed of Lycopodium – is not that some sort of fern?
I expected to have found a letter here from you, as you promised to write from Fribourg.
Monsieur
Monsieur Talbot (W.H.F.)
Poste Restante
à Cologne
Allemagne
Notes:
1. Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding, Lady Mt Edgcumbe (1808–1881); WHFT’s half-sister.
2. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.
3. Springs.