Sir/

I am most happy, to inform you, that my Son William ^<1>is returned from the South Seas, and bringing with him a quantity of Botanical Specimens agreeable to your request: I have most Respectfully to beg Sir, you will be so Kind as to forward your instructions what way you would wish they should be disposed off – my Son is Extremely desirous of the favor of seeing you personally (if possible) in Order to give a more full and plain Account of the different Islands from which they have been Obtained, as well also as the difficulty he met with in gaining Access to many of them, they being very Remote and hitherto generally Unfrequented by Europeans – my Son begs his most respectfull duty and humbly begs you will favor him with an Answer by return of post –

respectfully Sir I beg to Remain Y^r most Hb^l Devoted and Gratefull Servant
R^d Burden

27 Mason Street
Bridge Road
Lambeth
Monday 24^th Sept^r/ 38

W H Fox Talbot Esq^re
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts

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Notes:

1. See Doc. No: 05906.