London

May 9^th

My Dear M^r F.

Constance ^<1> is rather better but she has been for the last 4 or 5 days in a kind of dream – The little girl ^<2> continues very well and improves every day, she promises to be pretty and has beautiful eyes – I direct this letter as the preceding ones to M. Lacroix, ^<3> having no intelligence from any one of you of a recent date. I suppose you are gone to Genoa:

Yours aff^tly

Henry Talbot

M.
M. le Capitaine Feilding
aux soins de ^<4> M. Lacroix

Consul d’Angleterre ^<5>
à Nice
par Antibes
France

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Notes:

1. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

2. Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1st daughter; she was born on 25th April 1835.

3. P Lacroix, British Consulate, Nice.

4. Care of.

5. English Consul.