187 Picadilly
Dec 28 / 53
Messrs Hatchard beg to inform Mr H F Talbot they have this day send by Rail
Forbes Norway &
Liber Fluveorum
They cannot meet with a plain copy of Hookers Muscologia Britannica new or second hand, they have found a clean second hand Copy Colord in not a very good binding for 2 guineas<.> The work has been out of print 3 years.
[envelope:] flap blindstamped "h"
H. F. Talbot Esq
Greta Bank
Keswick
Cumberland