[this is written on the same sheet as a note from Capt Feilding: Doc. No: 01433]

London
17 May

Mon cher Henri

Je suis bien aise de voir que tu te rapproches de nous, et j’espère que bientôt tu reviendras, j’aurai tant de plaisir à te voir revenu sain et sauf – Adieu je n’ai pas le tems de t’en dire davantage – je pense que tu as entendu dire que j’ai eu la rougeole, je me porte tout à fait bien à present, et je suis bien aise de l’avoir eue

Adieu – ta sœur
H.

P.S. je t’ecrirai plus au long dans quelques jours.

Monsieur
Monsieur Strangways ^<1>
Charge des Affaires de Sa Majesté Brittannique
Florence
For Henry Talbot

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Translation:

London
17 May

My dear Henry

I am very pleased to see that you are getting closer to us, and I hope that soon you will return, I shall be so happy to see you back safe and sound – Goodbye I have no time to tell you more – I think that you have heard tell that I have had the measles, I am quite well now, and I am very pleased to have had them

Goodbye – your sister
H.

P.S. I shall write to you at greater length in a few days.

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Notes:

1. William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4^th Earl of Ilchester (1795–1865), botanist, art collector & diplomat. See H J P Arnold, William Henry Fox Talbot; Pioneer of Photography and Man of Science (London: Hutchinson Benham, Ltd, 1977), p. 48.